Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi Underground. The Germans in the tunnel did not wait for the conducting officer. A stream of them poured out. Their commander was with them...
Even the supply of human material was dwindling. In six weeks Germany had lost an estimated 280,000 soldiers (not including losses at Minsk). Troops needed at the fronts had to remain in the hinterlands like Denmark (see FOREIGN NEWS) and southern France, where the underground tide was rising...
...Europe was in bold ferment last week. In Paris, members of the Underground caught and killed loud-mouthed Fascist Philippe Henriot, Vichy Minister of Propaganda. In the sun-baked foothills of the Pyrenees, patriots took and held for two days the storied town of Bergerac...
Much as they want restoration of their looted land, Dutchmen want revenge even more. In this, the exiled Government met the underground voice more than halfway. Until the Germans came, no person in The Netherlands had been executed for any crime since 1870, when capital punishment was outlawed. But the Dutch law for Dutch murderers was too lenient for Dutch collaborators. The London Government rewrote the criminal code, restored the death penalty, prepared to execute Dutch quislings and their Nazi masters...
...Underground Report (MARCH OF TIME, including much captured German film; TIME, June...