OCCUPIED EUROPE: The Wall & the Scaffold

Last week hundreds of Europeans marched to Nazi execution because they dared to revolt against the New Order. Some were young, as heroes are supposed to be. Some were not. Plump men of middle years sprawled on their blindfolded faces in front of bullet-pocked walls. Worn grey bodies hung by their corded necks in public squares.

The Nazis admitted executing 1,000 in the past few weeks of European revolt. The number was probably a gross understatement.

Yugoslavia. Serbian Chetniks kept up their wild guerrilla fight against Adolf Hitler and Ante Pavelitch, his Croatian...

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