Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, German newspapers burst forth with a photograph of a U. S. officer inspecting a detachment of troops. On the left shoulders of their uniforms were swastikas. Good Nazis were encouraged to make typical Nazi deductions from the captions, one of which reads: "The swastika is a badge of honor in the American Army." No Nazi editor bothered to print easily obtainable explanations...
...weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should have been hoisted in Rome." Next day the Vatican Museum was closed, prelates explaining that the Vatican would not welcome the multitudes of swastika-wearing German tourists who might want to kill time while Hitler and Mussolini were in Naples...
Squyres, in referring to the discovery of a swastika on the wall of Memorial Hall Saturday, declared that it could not have been a mere student prank but a serious warning that Nazism is flourishing...
...Reichstag speech in which Hitler pooled all Germans everywhere into one ocean of German blood. He ended by defying openly for the first time the Czechoslovak statute which forbids the existence of a Nazi Party-it has hitherto existed in Czechoslovakia sub rosa, has not dared to use the swastika Nazi symbol. Daring the Government to enforce the law, Führer Henlein climaxed: "Naziism is the guiding principle of our Party, the same as it is for all Germans throughout the world! It is unbearable for us if, in the future, we are persecuted because of our confession...
...damage, however, was done. Not a newspaper in Catholic Austria* mentioned the Cardinal's about-face. And arriving back in Vienna, he had a swastika flag run up on old St. Stephen's Cathedral-just as he had had its bells rung when Hitler entered the city...