Word: pogrom
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Whether any campaign of retribution would be launched against Roman Catholics was unclear. None of the seven bishops in the captured provinces joined the tidal wave of fleeing refugees and none had been heard from at week's end. To still fears of a religious pogrom, Hanoi ordered its conquering troops to revere temples, pagodas and churches. Buddhist flags were hoisted alongside those of North Viet Nam and the P.R.G...
...understood that Jews were bitter about persecution in Germany, but warned, "instead of agitating for war, Jewish groups should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences." He had written in his diary two years earlier, after the Crystalnight pogrom. "They (the Germans) undoubtedly have a difficult Jewish problem, but why is it necessary to handle it so unreasonably." Cole refrains from personally expressing his views on the Des Moines speech, and from placing a value judgment on Lindbergh's obvious anti-Semitism. Instead he charges that government officials, like...
...escape. Michel, the boy, lives with his mother and grandmother, and is subjected to playground and schoolroom humiliations because he is a Jew. His mother, trying to remain inconspicuous, changes the family name and shuttles from one apartment to another. But there is no way to avoid the pogrom except to flee the country. She sends Michel ahead, joins him later with her mother, and the three try to cross the border to Switzerland and safety...
Hundreds of hysterical whites crowded the street in front of the radio station. Fearing a racial pogrom, others packed their belongings into cars or trucks and headed toward the South African border. Furious at the possibility that their independence might be denied them, blacks meanwhile went on a rampage, looting stores and beating many whites...
Korff was born in the Ukraine, the son of a rabbi; his mother was shot during a pogrom. During World War II, Korff was a member of a group that bribed the Nazis to allow some Jews to leave Germany. After the war Korff was involved with the terrorist Stern gang, which fought to oust the British from Palestine. In 1947 he was arrested by the French for allegedly taking part in a bizarre plot to bomb London with propaganda leaflets attacking the British stand on Palestine. He denied any wrongdoing and the French later released him without trial...