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...Chief Terrorist was beak-nosed General Heinrich von Stulpnagel, German commander of Occupied France, ably and professionally supported by veteran French and Nazi police. Early-bird Parisians were puzzled by public notices announcing tem porary closing of the quartier's important subway stations. The entire Xle Arron dissement was surrounded by German troops. They began arresting people whole sale. The victims were supposed to be Jews, but this was not the Jewish district of Paris. In a house-to-house, room-by-room roundup, soldiers seized every "Jew" aged 17 to 50, bundled 6,000 off to nearby concentration...
...city of Belgrade was fined 10,000,000 dinars ($181,800) for "increasing sabotage and terrorist activities." Twelve Serbs were executed for illegal possession of weapons, 122 "Communist and Jewish saboteurs" were put to death in another mass execution. Somewhere in northern Yugoslavia 90 persons were killed to avenge the death of one German soldier and one puppet policeman. Germany was reported to have sent 25,000 more troops to Yugoslavia to deal with guerrillas. The death of General Ludwig von Schroeder, Military Governor of Belgrade, was announced in Berlin. (The British claimed his death was engineered by the Gestapo...
Troubles multiplied. The "elected" Rada became unruly, and it became necessary to set up a frank puppetry under a Hetman named Paul Skoropadsky. Marshal von Eichhorn was assassinated by a Ukrainian terrorist. The peasant workers of the Ukraine became infected with Soviet ideology; riots broke out. Disorderly crowds of the Austrian troops who were supposed to garrison the area started west for home in trains and on foot, selling their arms to the local populace. The German soldiers caught Bolshevism, and it spread like an epidemic...
...deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...
...Hitler, "Serbs 'im right"). In cellars from Warsaw to Amsterdam they shook one another's hands, for at last the "free" Governments of German-conquered nations had meaning. But the most impressive demonstration outside of Yugoslavia itself was staged in Marseille, where in 1934 a Croatian terrorist assassinated King Alexander. Almost as if by magic, men & women bearing flowers appeared at the spot where the King was shot. Soon the street was covered with flowers piled high. When the police tried to break up this tribute, the people of Marseille bought tramcar tickets, dropped their flowers...