Word: swastikas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler issued an order of the day to his troops, on the tenth anniversary of compulsory military service under the swastika. He rehashed his personal nightmare of German martyrdom, and concluded: "We witness both in the east and the west what our people would have to face. Our task is therefore clear: to put up resistance and to wear down our enemies so long that, in the end, they will get tired and will yet be broken...
...original inhabitants of the Americas come from? Some experts believe that the Toltecs and the Aztecs drifted to the central plains of Mexico from Asia, by way of Alaska. The tantalizing, inconclusive "evidence" that keeps cropping up in early Mexican art: what looks like Chinese jade, Oriental symbols, the swastika and a few Grecian motifs which filtered into China from Greece hundreds of years before Christ...
Under the Geneva Convention of 1929, the 281,344 captured German soldiers in the U.S. may give the Nazi salute, paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...
...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...
Rumanians Wheedle. In Bucharest, the people cheered dusty Red Army tankmen. Where the swastika had flown, placards shouted: "Long live Stalin...