Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & early next morning Corfiotes heard the familiar drone of planes, saw a squadron of 100 circling over the skeletons of their gutted Byzantine churches and the grey bulk of the old Venetian fortress. To greet its captors, the city broke out a swastika flag. Then a seaplane landed and out stepped ten Italian officers, two Italian journalists. While other planes wheeled menacingly overhead, they came ashore, claimed the island for Italy...
Above the historic stones of the Acropolis last week fluttered not only the Nazi swastika but also the azure-&-white banner of Greece. "An elegant expression that we honor Greece," declared a German correspondent in Athens. But beneath the twin emblems the Nazis energetically concerned themselves not so much with honor as with the business of practical conquest...
...Orthodox Eastern Church, which was next day to celebrate its Easter, symbolic of rebirth, expressing faith in life, not an occasion of death.* It was probably not one of the deities once thought to be resident on Mt. Olympus, on whose summit German troops had planted the swastika just a few hours earlier-for the Gods of Olympus were fundamental to the ancient civilization which had invented democracy, the very thing Adolf Hitler had set out on his wars to extirpate...
...three latest fugitive bigwigs to be chased out of their country by the rolling swastika fled first last week to hard-pressed Athens, then to Jerusalem. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. About all they took with them was the grim satisfaction that Adolf Hitler will have a tough time making that...
...Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused to inspect the new $40,000,000 naval air training station. And out on the fishing grounds a seaplane shuttled back & forth, bearing messages from Washington and answers from the yacht. To onlookers who watched the Potomac sail, the swastika on the Arauca was a reminder of the force that, the world over, cut relentlessly into human rest...