Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch slave labor gangs barricaded themselves in their barracks, sang their national anthems. The SS apparently lacked the men to stop them. Elsewhere foreign workers were stepping up sabotage by slowing down production...
...afternoon they were swinging pickaxes on a onetime plantation at the end of 18th Avenue North, west of Hootin' Annie and Billy Goat Hills. Members of the American Friends Service Committee's first interracial work camp in the South, they were converting a little patch of former slave soil into a recreation field for local...
Called the tribes of men together For a conference on wampum In the forest of New Hampshire, Came the prophets of the nations, Foremost in their craft and wisdom. . . . Keynes urged, "Be not slave to wampum, Throw away the truss of wampum, Start a fund for prudent lending, That all tribes of men may borrow, Each get credit from the other, Using anything for wampum, Sterling, beads or even fishbones." Morgenthau, the Chief of Wall Street, Tighter strapped the belt of wampum, "My world bank for reconstruction Must be on a wampum basis." So they reasoned as they wrestled, While...
...women in his harem. They lived in a small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...
Back from the Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green. Most of them were Germans but a surprising proportion was not. With the Aryan supermen came a polyglot sprinkling of at least 12 nationalities. Some of the slave peoples, it seemed, could be persuaded to fight for the Herrenvolk...