Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation demanded supreme loyalty from its citizens, insisted on its superiority over other nationalities, fostered pride in the national character and destiny. Carried too far, these convictions played a part in World War I and in a perversion of nationalism, loosed the Nazi terror on the world, piling the earth with corpses...
...Nazi paratroopers and Panzer divisions blitzed Holland in May 1940, and Wilhelmina was hustled out of The Hague in an armored truck and put aboard a British destroyer...
...catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...
...volunteer army, with the men serving five-year terms, it drew its troops largely from the warrior races of the north-Jats, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Dogras, Garhwalis. Over the past century, the Indian army has fought from France to China, and has usually fought excellently, whether pitted against Pathan guerrillas, Nazi panzer grenadiers or Japanese suicide squads. In the 1947-48 war in Kashmir, the Indians were fighting a British-trained Pakistani army very like themselves. Since independence, the Indian army has not encountered a really first-rate foe. The guerrilla war with the rebellious
Ende, a mining engineer who served as an archconservative Deputy in the Reichstag in the last days of the Weimar Republic, joined Salzgitter in 1941, when it was still known as Reichswerke Hermann Goring. He ran its mining operations in Germany and in Nazi-occupied lands. In 1950 he was picked by Bonn to revitalize what the war had left to Salzgitter: a ragged collection of steelmaking plants, largely dismantled, built around some low-grade ore mines in northern Germany. Despite the many problems, Ende opened new mines, modernized the ore processing, put up steel mills, branched into oil drilling...