Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entrance cue. The chariots were assembled-the tanks and trucks of General Jacques Leclerc's armored division which had rolled up to the rim of the city with the Americans. Other victory parade leaders were ready - among them General Joseph Pierre Koenig, the commander of France's underground army, which was already rising against the last Germans in the murk that hovered over the "City of Light" just before the dawn...
While U.S. tanks clanked into the suburbs of Paris, the London News Chronicle's political correspondent, E. P. Montgomery, brooded over a nightmare that worries a lot of other people: by going underground the Nazis might be able to prolong the war indefinitely...
Groaned Correspondent Montgomery: "The war [in Germany] will go on-underground. Allied military patrols will be ambushed . . . administrators assassinated . . . commanders will die mysteriously. . . . Hitler and the Nazis-particularly Himmler-have learned from their own bitter experience how effective the underground resistance...
Correspondent Montgomery may have underestimated the difficulty of maintaining an underground movement without support from outside. But he had pointed up one possibility: all the shooting of this war may not end abruptly on one happy Armistice Day when people can hang out flags and dance in the streets...
...Underground Report (MARCH OF TIME, including much captured German film; TIME, June...