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Florence holds a strategic posi
tion in the war in Italy. The na
tion’s eighth largest city and one
of the world’s great art and cul
tural centers, it is a zone of re
* ported civilian uprising against
Nazi domination and an oft-bomb
ed rail-communications-industrial
hub on the road to Germany.
Some 250 miles south of Bren
ner pass, less than 100 miles from
the Po river defense line where
a German stand is expected, Flor
ence is within easy bombing dis
tance of all chief industrial cities
in southern Europe.
The city is one of the chief
monuments to medieval and ren
9 aissance culture. Michelangelo,
Giotto, Bandinelli, Leonardo da
Vinci, Raphael, Correggio, Botti
celli, Bencenuto Cellini and other
great artists were born here. Flor
ence is dotted with beautiful art
galleries, libraries, museums and
public buildings and the city’s
churches are most imposing. The
Duomo church, designed by Ar
nolfo di Cambio, with it great pil
larless roof, is the most famous.
Voicing respect of these treas-*
ures, the Germans reportedly de
clared Florence an “open city.”
But Allied fliers who repeatedly
bombed its freight yards said the
Germans used this city like Rome,
as a great staging and supply
base, believing the proximity of
historic art would withhold heavy
bombing.
Through its 1,500-year history,
Florence has been under military
siege by many European princes.
Rising to an international pin
nacle in art and culture in the
14th century, the city ranks high
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'in finance, industry, commerce
land literature.
Florence lies in a broad valley,
ion both sides of the wide and
shallow Arno river, and its 300,
000 c.ln.ens reside in handsome
buildings of historic architecture.
Today, Florence is the center of
Italy’s silk industry, the largest in
Europe, and has foundries, ma
chine shops, mills, automobile and
iglcss works. Artists " there s4ill
; produce line wrought iron, gold
and silver and embossed leather
work.
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Hitler WAS
Right!
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Gleaned from Mein Kampf,
these passages now appear pro
phetic, but not in the sense Adolf
Hitler intended them to be.)
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ENGLAND . . . always fought
with the weapons that were re
quired for success . , . the deter
mination to fight and the tenacity
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and unflinching conduct always
remained the same (In arguing
the desirability of allying Ger
many with England as against
France.)
! Thus the fact oi the conclusion
of a (German! treaty with Russia
embodies the declaration of the
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next war. (In arguing against the
possibility oi ar* alliance with the
Soviets.)
Men have already learned to
I cry for bread, but one of these
'days they will pray for freedom
| (In inveighing against the Locar
no treaty.)
! One begins to tremble before
the terrible enemy, and thus one
has become his final victim (At
tacking Marxism.)
j Even posterity forgets those
men who only serve their own
avantage . . . (In a critique of
“pacifist babblers”.)
• It is not tlic* as surnc pco*
pie claim, that Japan adds Euro
pean techniques to her culture,
but European science and techni
ques are trimmed with Japanese
characteristics. (In arguing that
the Japanese were culturally in
ferior.)
Only he who is not able to give
anything valuable out of himself
to the world, but tries to act as
though he wants to give it God
knows what, will hate everything
that ha salready been given and
would most of all like to deny it
or even destroy it. (In a diatribe
aimed at parliamentary govern
tent.)
For days I pondered what could
be done at all, but the end of all
reflections was always the sober
conclusion that I. as one without
name, did not possess even the
least presupposition for any use
ful activity. (On the German rev
olution of 1918.)
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