Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During that period of crisis, the men who have run the machine of Fascist administration on -- a machine shattered by defeat but not yet demolished -- will find themselves face to face with the men of the underground anti-Fascist groups...
...These underground groups fall under two headings: believers in democratic institutions and Communists...
...Holland. Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death; by week's end 17 had been executed. Desperate Nazi officials ordered the internment of 450,000 demobilized Dutch soldiers, declared martial law throughout Holland. The Netherlands Government in Exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means, but 18,500 Dutch veterans were soon rounded up and in concentration camps...
Pantelleria lies smack in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. It is about half the size of Malta and has a simmering volcano at its center. Its airfield is reported to be connected by tunnel with a small underground hangar. The harbor can be used as a submarine base. The whole island is strongly fortified...
...Road? Italy's underground organizations rely on Allied support. But they feel that Allied statesmen and propagandists have ignored them, even fear that the Allies may dicker with Fascists when Italy is invaded. Wrote the socialist underground La Terza Fronte (The Third Front...