Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a lot of weight to throw around, but Himmler had it. In the purge that followed the attempt against Hitler's life last July, Himmler showed what he could do to Army officers who jumped the fences. There is a strange story that Himmler learned of the...
The men from Lublin hoisted Poland's red-&-white flag over Warsaw's debris. They established their Government in hastily constructed barracks. As their first order of business, they dispatched judges and prosecutors to other cities through which the Red Army had crashed to purge traitors and collaborators...
A newsworthy rumor slipped through Brazilian censorship last week. Latest victim of Dictator Getulio Vargas' chronic purge was Air General Eduardo Gomes, the last of the leading revolutionary liberals of 1930 to hold a high government post. He was reported to be the leader of the clandestine, anti-Vargas...
The General sat on the Government bench in the Consultative Assembly. Up for debate came the issue of the purge of collaborationists. Socialist Assemblyman Louis Nogueres shouted an accusation: Minister of State Jules-Jeanneney (President of the last Senate in the Third Republic) had helped the Vichy regime to power...
As heedless of boundary lines as rain in the lush jungles, revolution had swept Central America for nine months - not only in Salvador but in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The military rulers who survived the revolutionary purge killed, tortured, imprisoned hundreds of men & women, drove thousands into exile. The people...