Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces did their thundering bit with bombs; when they left, the F.F.I, took over, refreshing the damage. Everything was charted on a sabotage map in Allied headquarters, kept up to date by underground communications...
...They mean to emulate the Partisans. Headquarters will be near Berchtesgaden, where Hitler, Mussolini, selected quislings and lesser German dignitaries can defy the Allies from the Wagnerian Berghof. Arms, supplies and lavish radio equipment are already being gathered. The radio will be used to guide a vast network of underground fanatics, enrolled under the slogan: "Join the permanent fight for European freedom...
...that Adolf Hitler proposes to fight for months, that he has utterly destroyed every source of democratic or leftist resistance, that even the Junkers, industrialists and generals are neither able nor anxious to throw him out and shorten the war, that the Nazis actually do have plans to go underground...
...Germany, 50,000 ragged men, deserters since the invasion from forced labor gangs, were reported roaming in little bands, harassing farms and little villages at night, heading grimly toward the German lines and a chance to join the Underground. From the wooded hills around Pinczow in southern Poland, guerrillas swooped on the town one wet and windy night last month, set free 500 fellow-fighters, awaiting execution. An old story was revived in neutral capitals: Hitler, Göring & Goebbels keep a long-range private plane in readiness to whisk them to Japan...
Able, ruthless "Colonel Passy," boss of the Gaullist secret service and the Gaullist liaison with the Underground (TIME, May 29), took a new job: Chief of Staff under General Joseph Koenig, Commander of the French Forces of the Interior. "Passy" dropped his alias. "I have nothing to hide," he said. "My real name is Andre de Wavrin...