Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Frightened Animals. "I was in Berlin during that last great American [air] attack. I sought safety in an underground railway tunnel which is one of Berlin's 'safest' shelters. Thousands of people were packed together there. Then the first bombs came. The ground heaved, lights flickered. People scrambled about like frightened animals. . . . The lights in the tunnel went out. . . . Some pocket torches were lighted, but proved useless in the cloud of chalky dust that came welling through the tunnel. It penetrated eyes, mouth, nose and ears. People knelt on the railway tracks and prayed...
...Most widely believed (by 45%) was a rumor that a prominent Government official has three cars and a large underground tank filled with gasoline for his personal use. Another (believed by 13%): that producers' storage tanks are so full that tankers are dumping gasoline...
More as a formality than from any hope of help, the Polish Government in London for the second time in a month appealed to Britain and the U.S. The Polish Home Army (which is loyal to the London Poles) had fought the Germans through five years of underground and guerrilla resistance. It had aided the Red Army. It had suffered grave losses in last fall's Warsaw uprising. Now what the Germans had left of the Home Army was being systematically "liquidated" by the Russians and their puppet Warsaw Government...
...secret police), had organized special courts to purge "enemies of the people"-i.e., all political opponents of the Warsaw Government. ¶ The purge included the disarming and jailing of Home Army units, the execution of many of its officers, the deportation to Russia of at least 2,500 Polish underground fighters...
...Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland's biggest city, underground fighters (Stoottroepen, meaning shock troops) charged three prominent citizens with collaboration, clapped them into jail. When Interior Minister Jacob Burger protested against indiscriminate purging, the Stoottroepen of both occupied and liberated Holland forced his resignation...