Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Government of Germany learned last week what the people of France have gradually learned since the Armistice of June 22: that France's Chief of State is no stooge of Adolf Hitler, of Pierre Laval, or of anybody else. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician. Last week his political tactics seemed about to get France into big, bad trouble with her conquerors...
...Vichy, after the dismissal fortnight ago of Vice Premier Laval, went Germany's Ambassador to France Otto Abetz. Young Otto Abetz had been charged by Adolf Hitler with removing from the Vichy Government any threats to the continued "collaboration" of France and Germany. In Vichy he saw Marshal Pétain, then hurried to nearby Châteldon to hear Laval's story of his break with Pétain. At Abetz' insistence, Chief of State Pétain received Citizen Laval and listened to his justification of the conduct, still unrevealed, which led to his dismissal...
...week's end he sent word by Emissary De Brinon to Ambassador Abetz firmly refusing to make any further changes in his Cabinet. The Cabinet met in Foreign Minister Flandin's sickroom in Vichy to figure out the next move but one. The next move was Adolf Hitler...
Last week Nazi police discovered that some of Germany's tenderhearted Hausfrauen were "spoiling out-of-bounds" their Polish prisoners, imported to do the farm work left by Hitler's fighting men. In Mainz a special court convicted Frau Maria Frey of allowing hers "repeatedly to hug and kiss her and replying to these caresses," sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment. Frau Arna Strauch, convicted more succinctly of adultery, was sentenced to two years and four months. Both were deprived of citizenship for three years...
...with the conquered and occupied countries of Europe. Its relief problems were loosely lumped with those of nations under the Axis thumb. Many people misguidedly feared that help for unblockaded Finland, which was in fact in the same international position as Portugal or Switzerland, might hinder Britain and aid Hitler...