Word: swastika
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...heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge, and he tries his best to fight a decent...
...true, but the outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents after the Christmas smearing of swastikas on the Cologne synagogue jolted West Germany into taking a new and disgusted look at the neo-Nazi Deutsche Reichs-Partei. Police established that the two young swastika smearers, aged 25, were both German Reich Party members. Though the party hastily expelled the pair, newspapers and Bundestag members demanded that the party be banned under the constitution's Article 21, which outlaws "parties that according to their aims and the behavior of their members seek to impair or abolish the free and democratic basic order...
Although I lost my father in the concentration camp of Auschwitz when I was eleven years old, and have no desire to see a new police state established anywhere, I refuse to participate in the current wave of mass hysteria over the swastika issue, by many Americans considered a sign of another anti-Semitic feeling in Germany...
...Including some in Vienna, Paris, London, Oslo, West Hartford, Conn, and Manhattan (where a black swastika was smeared across fashionable Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue...
Still vivid in the memory of most Athenians is the day in May 1941 when 19-year-old Emmanuel Glezos slipped silently into the ruins atop the Acropolis and tore down the Nazi swastika that desecrated the sacred rock. With this first open defiance of Greece's World War II German occupiers, Glezos made himself a national hero...