Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...angry executioner slapped the traitor's face, sprang the trap...
...Barcelona the haggard refugee and his wife boarded the same Luftwaffe plane with the same Luftwaffe pilots who had flown them in. A few hours later they came down on a U.S. Army airfield in Austria. Rumor said that Traitor Laval had vainly offered his German pilots one million francs if they would head for Portugal. U.S. officers promptly turned Laval over to the French, who flew him to Paris...
...chair, but leaning on a cane, Weygand hammered at the prosecution's case. "I will accept from no one," he cried, "lessons in patriotism and honor. What is honor? To be steadfast and to speak the truth. . . . Nothing will induce me to call Pétain a traitor...