Word: zagreb
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...details of Tito's life history were obscure, but the results were plowed deep in Tito's gullied face. But before the plowing began, before he was even Tito, he was plain Josip Broz. His father was a Croat blacksmith in the village of Klanjec, near Zagreb. He had scarcely begun to learn his father's trade when the shot with which the Serbian nationalist, Govirlo Princip, killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, shot young Josip Broz into the Austrian Army...
...Athens, then London. But a Yugoslav colonel, Draja Mihailovich, retired to the hills with a handful of soldiers and kept on fighting. He may or may not have heard about the hard-faced Croat named Tito, who, a month before the German armies invaded Russia, had re appeared in Zagreb and Belgrade...
Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...
Cooperation with the Allies recently saved thousands of Partisans in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Tipped off that patriots had sneaked into the city to prepare an attack, the Gestapo ordered a 14-hour, house-to-house search. Soldiers had orders to guard the streets, shoot pedestrians. Tito broadcast an urgent appeal to Allied headquarters in Italy. In immediate reply, Allied bombers flew over Zagreb. The Germans had to sound an alarm. In the confusion, most of the Partisans escaped...
...Germans grew increasingly jittery about Allied designs on the mountainous shore of the Adriatic, just across from Italy. Axis-controlled Zagreb sent out a feeler. It reported Allied landings in force on the Yugoslav shore, where the Second German Tank Army keeps spotty guard. The report was wrong only in its exaggeration of the force: parties of officers and specialists had been landed to help the Partisans of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz...