RUSSIANS IN KIROVOGRAD, PUSH ON; NEARING RUMANIA, GAIN IN POLAND (1/9/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/9/44 | Drew Middleton, Milton Bracker, Bosley Crowther, George Axelsson

[InMemoriam]

I was intrigued by George Axelsson's reference to a secret nationalist court after WWI that executed non-hardliners.

And I found it! The Organisation Consul. They killed not only the guy that signed the armistice, but people who, for example, reported violations of the Treaty of Versailles like hidden weapons caches, totaling more than 350 freelance death sentences carried out. This fills in a missing piece for me, as I was not sure why the remilitarization proceeded apace even well before the Nazis came to power.