Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco Conference approached and the war in Europe waned, Truman began to be more concerned with international affairs. The Nazi armies were disintegrating, and Winston Churchill telephoned from Britain to discuss a peace feeler that had reached him from Heinrich Himmler. On his way to San Francisco, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov called at the White House and got an unexpected dressing down from Harry Truman. Russia was not living up to its Yalta agreement on the composition of the Polish government, and Truman had some testy comments to make about the necessity for keeping obligations. " 'I have never...
Died. Thomas Mercer Backhouse, 51, officer in charge of the war crimes section in the British Army of the Rhine in World War II, successful prosecutor in 1945 of Joseph ("The Beast of Belsen") Kramer and other Nazi operators of Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps; of pleurisy; in Nottingham, England...
...Only 14 years before, Nazi troops were probing to within 20 miles of Moscow, and behind them half a million square miles of Russia lay charred. Only ten years before, a sullen shuffle of a defeated, captured Nazi army marched on dismal parade through Moscow's streets. And now, with a rattle of drums, a blare of horns and the clatter of a goose-stepping honor guard, the leader of the new Germany was received in Moscow...
Died. Johannes Cardinal de Jong, 69, Archbishop of Utrecht, courageous anti-Nazi during World War II as chief Catholic prelate in The Netherlands, author of the classic Handbook of Church History; after long illness; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Ailing on the date of the Consistory in 1946 when he was to have been elevated to cardinal, Archbishop de Jong received the red hat of office from Pope Pius XII in a special ceremony at Pope Pius' summer residence eight months later, was the first resident cardinal in The Netherlands since the Reformation...
...Royal Air Force fighter pilot. After Pearl Harbor. Joe Klaas, like Hero Weis, was "sold" to the U.S. Army Air Force for $35,000.* Like Weis, he was shot down in Tunisia by Luftwaffe fighters, resold by an Arab to the Germans for $20, spent two years behind Nazi fences, and finally took part in the apocalyptic march he writes about...