A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilie Libertaria #452: Black Crossword (2). Hooked crosswords. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

To open our brief excursus in this dirty intellectualoid war, let's take 
a little journey more or less respectful of the chronological 
progression of history, starting with a small dishonorable jewel, which 
codifies one of the infamies at the base of Nazi-fascist conceptions, 
which, hypothetically, could act as a black baptism to our initiatory 
journey into the black belly of puzzles. ---- Pen in hand, let's tackle 
our hypothetical black-brown crossword, starting with the first 
question, fired at us as you are reading it: Indo-European, at which 
point, if unprepared, without haste, using the intersections, the word 
Aryan will come out which, if we were really playing, without even 
thinking about it, we would have moved on to the next riddle but Aryan, 
let's remember, is at the unfortunate base of Nazi-fascist racism that 
caused six million deaths, which goes under the name of Shoah and a 
question like that cannot be left like that, to weigh empty in any game, 
if not deliberately deviant.

To compensate us for the effort of superior research, they make the 
following easy for us, so, en passant, we immediately write the acronym 
SS of nefarious memory, extrapolating it from the harmless initials of a 
state road, or from the initials of some famous person, such as Stefania 
Sandrelli or, even more insidiously, especially for believers, from the 
saints on the calendar or, even worse, from the Holy See, as if to 
remember the infamous post-war period, when many Nazis passed through 
the Vatican to go and get lost in South America or in US paramilitary 
and scientific laboratories, also recalled by the request to give a name 
to a port on the Black Sea that corresponds to Odessa, just as to stay 
on topic, with supposed innocence and lightness, we must give the name 
to Cruise from the film Valkyrie, the famous Tom, just to keep us 
anchored to historical themes on Nazism. So, already warned, because we 
are understanding how it works, continuing to scroll through the list of 
questions, we will have to answer what reminds us of a typical step and, 
amazed, we get that of the goose, synonymous with sad marches, to make 
us forget the most painful and sad ones, two for all, that of the Jews 
forced by the Nazis to march in the snow, fleeing from the concentration 
camps and that of the Italian retreat from Russia, rather crippled.

And this our lugubrious descent towards the empire of evil, wanted by a 
notorious dictator of the 20th century, Hitler's answer, is sweetened, 
so as not to disturb, too much, our innocent game, by committing 
ourselves to deciphering what or who The third was Nazi Germany or, 
easier, Hitler founded the third so much so that, taken by the 
resolution, without even thinking about how much it has meant for 
contemporary history, we write reich enthusiastic to proceed quickly to 
the resolution of the crossword, remaining perplexed for a moment in 
front of another acronym, a little more difficult, which was a Nazi 
defensive organization, the infamous todt, served to us as if they had 
been the cheerful musical band of Larussian memory.

Deeper and deeper into the Nazi slime, with a quick mind and attentive 
to the definitions, without wasting time, almost with annoyance, we 
quickly write the answer, identifying who hates the Jews, considering it 
rather childish, an anti-Semite, right? and wonder, immediately after, 
what it could mean inside the panzer, to derive the two following and 
unequivocal consonants, on the subject, NZ which I don't think needs to 
be translated. Then, inviting us to review in their way the National 
Socialist deeds of that time, they push us to resolve more specific 
questions, such as city of Thuringia, without specifying anything else, 
which responds to Weimar, a republic sunk by Hitler, a character for 
them justified and justifiable if, among other things, they ask us the 
definition of that action that makes one state unite with another which, 
thanks to the presence of some letter, we define as an annexation, 
completely inattentive and forgetful that it is usually the result of a 
murderous and cowardly aggression of another state, see Putin - Ukraine 
or Netanyahu - Palestine.

And how to humiliate the eternal enemies of the Reich, without letting 
it be seen? An example for all, a masterpiece of perfidy, not for the 
historical fact that characterizes it but for the intentions for which 
it is cited. It is about giving a name to a famous Austrian general, a 
real puzzle if we do not have some letters available but, in the end, an 
atypical if not unknown Melas comes out, that only ardent Bonapartists 
can remember with pain, because he was the only one who defeated 
Napoleon (Where? Let's go and look for it after reading the article, if 
we still feel like it.) The purpose, not clarified, of this repechage is 
to take revenge against the French, reminding them, convinced enemies of 
the Axis, of a historical defeat. But it is not uncommon for Pétain to 
appear in some crossword puzzles, defined as The Marshal of Vichy, the 
city where he established the seat of his government, happy that we do 
not suspect he had established a collaborationist regime with the 
Germans, to whom he handed over many Jews, although few of French 
nationality.

And, returning to the problem of the Shoah, we must say that these 
hooked crosswordists find a way to talk about it but without alarming us 
too much, taking it from afar, with cunning perfidy, feeding us another 
little pearl of their absurd world, with the excuse of calming our 
burning and quenching our thirst, asking us what this generic type of 
anonymous beer is, to serve us an answer with a double meaning, the 
second of which the writer, without telling us, cares more about and has 
nothing to do with the color, nor with the ingredients, nor with the 
processing of the beer in question but refers, with a guilty attitude of 
ignorance, to the most cursed and criminal invention of Nazism, which 
was the lager, thus proposed to us with the aim of lightening, 
downgrading, revisiting history, trying to overcome that claustrophobic 
world of death that it represented, dwelling on details, which at first 
sight will not seem so atrocious and cursed to us but only an easy 
answer, when answering, later, what surrounded the lager, we suddenly 
write reticulato, forgetting that the prisoners who touched it, suddenly 
died electrocuted. In case we were a little perplexed by the last 
question, to distract us from painful reflections, an intricate 
Oscar-worthy question comes to our aid, to restore and not disturb too 
much our compulsive revisiting in a Nazi-denying sign, bringing into 
play the director Riefenstahl for whom we must find the name of two 
syllables, apparently reassuring and easy: Lena, if it is not that she 
had directed several films on the greatness of Hitler and his macabre 
army, among which the most famous is the celebration of the Berlin Olympics.

And what about the umpteenth answer from convinced Nazis, to define the 
German concentration camp for soldiers without any other description, as 
if it were a summer camp? Stalag is the answer but it hides the 
criminogenic and totalitarian vision that was at its base, desired by 
the so-called thousand-year Reich which, fortunately, also for its fans, 
lasted a terrifying handful of years that cost a second world war and 
millions of deaths, thanks also to what was built in the Krupp 
steelworks headquarters, as per the answer, located in Essen and, so as 
not to skip another of the many questions, to the effectiveness of the 
German bombing planes, which, we know, it is not a great boast to know 
were Stukas but should remind us what ruthless instruments of death the 
Nazis used, not sparing civilians, cities and works of art, ending with 
the infamous V2.

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