Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, where villages like Swastika, Ont. have been taking patriotic names like Winston (for Churchill), the citizens of New Germany, Nova Scotia, declined to change. Said they: "That's just what there should be-a new Germany...
...lead in financing escapes and in finding new homes for the outcasts. But, generous as the financial response has been, American ignorance concerning these refugees has hampered aid programs and offered the Christian Front, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Bund a chance to strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration on the grounds that those already here have increased unemployment. They mutter about our own racial purity and complain that this is a Jewish problem-that Palestine and Madagascar are good enough for the refuse...
That day was the 70th anniversary of the founding of the German Reich. From the ninth-floor San Francisco offices of Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, a big red, white and black swastika war flag was unfurled in tribute...
...escape to the floor above the German Consulate. A U. S. sailor wriggled down to the staff, slashed at the flag with a knife. Another sailor grabbed a fold, pulled. Nazi clerks leaned out to haul the flag to safety. The boys held on; the flag ripped across the swastika. The boys climbed down. Two riot calls brought carloads of police. The crowd cheered. The sailors were pinched. The building canceled the consulate's lease...
...months Drs. Shatzky and Lewis waited anxiously for the books. Finally six large, swastika-stamped boxes arrived. When they pried open the boxes they found just what the doctors had hoped they had ordered: the library of Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were marked with his rubber stamp or signature. Among the items: Freud's medical-school texts; eleven rare volumes of Mesmerism (alone worth more than $500); a privately printed volume for "Le Roi de France" on animal magnetism (value...