Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic Wall was cracked in Normandy; the fissure opened by that wedge seemed to point straight to Paris. In northern Italy there was a bad breach that might spread to the weakened Balkan wing of the fort. Smaller cracks were opening within the fortress itself-the result of serious underground strains in France, in Yugoslavia, in Denmark...
...outcome of all this, said the Observer, would be to rip up the Reich, throw Germany back into the chaos of little states which Bismarck made a nation, and thus wreck the victors' plans for a united but weakened Germany. In the confusion, the underground Nazis would do their damndest to make life impossible for the occupying troops, keep "a ruthless grip on a cowed population." Concluded the Observer...
...first, a few young civilians suddenly sprang up, flaunted arm bands and weapons, and called themselves resistance chiefs. The French police soon suppressed them with the aid. of legitimate resistance-chiefs. Leaders and members of the real underground were completely orderly, completely cooperative. Normandy has had no purges, no killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen...
Going about one's business for four years of German occupation was not enough to change that immutable fact. Two of the underground leaders in the Cherbourg area kept their government posts under the Germans, and shrewdly used their positions to build resistance for the day when resistance would count. Cherbourg's Mayor Reynaud served throughout the occupation, is now working closely with the Allied authorities...
...Underground Report (MARCH OF TIME, including much captured German film; TIME, June...