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...have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland's Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart that they would have no part of a medical society that sponsored "deportation of the insane and sick persons and the sterilization of healthy people...
...Germany, some 25 Italian divisions hemmed by the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. German troops had occupied the strategic sectors of northern Italy. The Nazi position seemed clear: if the Allies would not accept a neutral Italy, the Germans would accept nothing but Italy's continued alliance with the Reich. If Italy would not fight on with Germany, Germany would fight across Italy...
...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
Foreign workers returning home to Denmark and Sweden brought such descriptions of the Reich's second city, blasted by 10,000 tons of bombs in seven night raids by the R.A.F., two daylight attacks by U.S. bombers. Dante's Inferno, said one, was incomparable with Hamburg. Entire city districts were wiped out: St. Pauli, known to sailors the world over for its roller coasters, shooting galleries, beer halls and other places of amusement; Altona, the "Red district" of pre-Hitler days, where Communists and Nazis had fought bitter, bloody battles on the streets; the harbor with its huge...
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, who today is one of the world's most hardheaded statesmen, was born in 1876 -five years after Bismarck founded the Second Reich; six years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as "the prisoner of the Vatican"; five years after the Paris proletariat bloodily introduced Europe to a new form of the state-the commune or soviet. The consequences of these events were to mark the highlights of the career of Eugenio Pacelli...