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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunisia from the Gulf of Gabès 20 miles inland. There were already reports of Axis troops from Tripolitania hastening into Tunisia. There was even a report (from Berlin) that Rommel himself had left Tripolitania to go "elsewhere on another job." The report obviously was put out to save the fox's face, now that he had lost his tail. But it might be true. Rommel might have gone to Tunisia...
...have stated emphatically and repeatedly to Commander in Chief General Eisenhower that in leading North and West Africa . . . into the ranks of the United Nations I seek no assistance or support for my personal ambition. My sole purpose is to save French Africa, help to free France and then retire into private life with the hope that future leaders of France may be selected by the French people themselves and by no one else...
...Union's northern provinces he recruited "National Socialist Rebels." He told them he had been sent by Hitler to save Afrikanders from the British. They signed an oath of allegiance in their own blood. Everywhere that Leibbrandt went, sabotage and terrorism were sure to follow...
Police finally caught up with him on Christmas Eve 1941, put him in Pretoria jail. There he spoke only German (his English is perfect), aped Hitler's appearance, gave the Nazi salute, declared: "God sent Adolf Hitler to save Germany and all oppressed mankind." He said he intended to give South Africans the benefit of his trained leadership "after the war has ended in the inevitable Axis victory...
...medium-wave station XPRA at Kunming. Some of the broadcasters are Chinese who were born or raised in Japan. But the most potent are anti-imperial Japanese taken prisoner by the Chinese armies. They are men who have convinced themselves that only a common cause with the Chinese can save the people of Japan. Their fiery opposition is not restricted to the Japanese militarists; it is directed also at the Emperor and all his myth.* They hope for a post-war Japanese republic...