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Frank Knox draped his office wall with a great swastika-the flag of the freighter Odenwald, captured in the South Atlantic flying United States colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...snubbed by the Government leaders, and the leftist press was not very kind to an ideologist who had declared: "When we are in power, the head of a prominent Jew will be stuck on every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rosenberg's Russia | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Russia, and the President, urging all aid quickly, painted a none-too-realistic picture of religious, toleration there. Last week it was Germany, and the President, telling why the shooting began, announced that Hitler's Government has a still-secret plan for abolishing all existing religions, substituting the swastika for the cross and Mein Kampf for the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Lend-Lease | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Removal of the Cross of Christ from all churches, cathedrals and chapels. It will be replaced by the swastika as the "only unconquerable symbol of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Lend-Lease | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Hitler convinced Thyssen that he was simply the "pacemaker" for the coming restoration of the monarchy. Goring showed him the smoking ruins of the Reichstag, told him it was a Communist crime, and Thyssen believed that also. But after two years of the dictatorship, Thyssen took down the swastika from his house and communicated no further with the Nazi leaders, except for periodic protests. He resigned as a state councillor of Prussia, demanded that his councillor's salary be stopped. The Nazis kept on sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Was Wrong | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

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