Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe last week it was the night before the Day of Judgment. The reckoning followed implacably in the footsteps of the liberating armies. And those who had once been powerful, ruled states and sent armies and individuals to their death, were themselves skulking in terror of those whom they had once terrorized...
...demonstration took place in the town of Roetgen (pop. 2,300), near Aachen. Many of the townspeople had fled. Some were hiding in terror. Civil Affairs Officer Captain Gordon F. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., drove in with five men, parked his jeep in front of the post office, established himself as judge, mayor and military boss...
Time for Rejoicing? Britons naturally felt relieved at the end of the robot blitz. A few of them regarded this feeling as premature, fearing that V-2s might soon be dropping on Britain from within Germany itself. But few if any appeared to realize the terror that the robot still might represent for Britain...
...having their long-looked-for day. In city streets and country woods, Frenchmen and their wives and children tracked down the Germans and collaborationists like animals. Sometimes the quarry was dispatched out of hand. More often, by an instinct for justice and law that was stronger than vengeance or terror, the quarry was jailed...
Ugly scars left on the body of Paris by Nazi terror came to light last week...