Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis could not do enough for Hangman Reinhard Heydrich. His bomb-gutted body was borne through torchlit streets; it lay in state in gabled Prague Castle. Four Black Shirts stood as a guard of honor at each of the four corners of a coffin scarred by a huge swastika. In courtyards and alleyways the volleys of retributory gunfire were like the spitting of angry cats. At each spatter another Czech fell. In ten days the Germans admitted 216 Czechs shot. But that was not good enough...
...airplane-production staff, headed by onetime General Motors Man James D. Mooney, had made up its mind that Brewster needed a strong hand. From inside the plants came an account of the "inadequacy": that the FBI had found several dozen saboteurs working for Brewster (in the morning big swastika-shaped holes were sometimes found punched in plane wings); that when the company attempted to fire suspected men, the union intervened; that the Navy stepped in to end sabotage. From the plants also came rumors that confusion, inefficiency and mismanagement had delayed production. From aircraft circles came gossip: Brewster officials...
George F. Deatherage, brawny founder of the swastika-loving Knights of the White Camellia and American Nationalist Confederation, was discovered to be working as an executive engineer on a secret Government project at the Norfolk naval base. The Navy, its attention called, found that he was "undesirable," declared that he would be "excluded from the site of Navy work...
When Dean Donham declares that "the collapse of the old Germany was hastened by the inability of university-trained men to fit themselves into the economic life of the community," he forgets that the chief reason most Germans couldn't find work and finally took to the swastika is that the rest of the world was so blinded by nationalism as to turn central Europe into an impossible mess, and so stupid as to bring their own countries to the verge of revolt in the Great Depression...
...Boston, Harold L. J. Sturtevant, kicked out of the Navy when he tore a swastika from the German consular office in San Francisco last January, applied for reinstatement...