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Word: purger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mist & Mystery | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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