Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Flag. On V-E day, there were 100 U-boats in German ports, many of them scuttled. Seventy others were loose in the Atlantic, 20 of them on the North American side. Allied naval authorities ordered them to surface and stay surfaced, fly a black surrender flag,* radio their positions, proceed to Allied ports as instructed...
...Brussels the escape of King Leopold III from the Nazis caused neither joy nor sorrow, but considerable embarrassment. The Socialist Party demanded that the King stay out of Belgium. The Catholic Party declared that if Leopold was kept out it would leave the Cabinet, in which it holds the balance of power...
...Hitler again expressed his determination to stay in Berlin, and said he wanted to die there. He thought it would be the greatest service he could render to the honor of the German nation. In this conference his desire to stay in the Chancellery was violently opposed. Keitel spoke to him in really sharp terms, reminding him that his new attitude was contradictory to his former plans. Bormann supported Keitel no less strongly...
...Mousetrap. "Jodl was a quiet man who spoke little, but when he spoke, it was always clearly, frankly and to the point. Now he also came out strongly against Hitler. He declared very firmly that he, personally, would not stay in Berlin; he thought it was a mousetrap, and his job was to lead the troops, not stand with a flintlock in his hand defending the city and in the end dying in the rubble of its ruins...
...When Keitel and Bormann saw that they could not move Hitler to change his mind, they said that in spite of his orders, they would also stay. Hitler again ordered them to leave; in ten minutes, he said, the Russians might be before the Chancellery. Keitel and Bormann repeated that they would stay. Keitel added: 'We would never be able to confront our wives and children if we left...