Word: slovakia
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...Austria in 1938 Adolf Hitler had gambled with all he had, and won. In Czecho-Slovakia, in Poland, in the Low Countries and France he had gambled with all he had; each time he had won. He was gambling with all he had in Russia, and again he seemed to be winning. But if Hitler had lost a single one of these gambles, that would have meant the end of Hitler...
...Czecho-Slovakia the Nazi "protector," Reinhard Heydrich, kept hustling trussed-up Czechs to the execution walls. Near Oslo 500 Norwegians fought a pitched battle with Nazi troops. While Leader Eugène Deloncle of the pro-Nazi French Cagoulards was in training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town...
Significance. Europe's revolt against Adolf Hitler was not one movement, but many. In Yugoslavia it was hot, open civil war, abetted by traditional Balkan Pan-Slavic sympathies. Soviet Russia even spared "a certain number" of bombers to aid the insurgents. In Czecho-Slovakia it was the discovered sabotage of highly organized underground rebels as the high rank of many of the condemned suggested. Widespread in Europe were examples of that single zealotry of which Paul Collette was the prime symbol...
...Incident (1932), the spit of rifle-fire in the Chaco (1932-35), the bursting of bombs in Ethiopian villages (1935-36), the volleys of firing squads in Spanish bull rings (1936-39), the screams of murdered Chinese civilians (1937-?), the tramp of Nazi boots through Austria (1938) and Czecho-Slovakia (1939), and at last the mounting crescendo of World...
...alone was Britain the beneficiary under the law. Lend-Lease aid had been extended to China, the Dutch, Norway, Greece, Czecho-Slovakia, as well as some countries in the Western Hemisphere...