21.  During the war, the United States used Natal as a base for sorties against Nazi forces in Africa.

22.  During World War II, many Jews continued to live in the area, which remained unoccupied by Nazi forces.

23.  Encircled by powerful Nazi forces, led by a Germanic royal family and reared under a shared Lutheran culture, Sweden was torn by the war.

24.  Families of Gypsy Holocaust victims are demanding compensation for possessions plundered by Nazi forces during World War II, their lawyer said Wednesday.

25.  He became serious about music during World War II, after Nazi occupying forces in France drafted him for labor in Germany.

26.  He also noted German assistance in rebuilding the Ascension Church in the northwest Russian city of Novgorod, which had been destroyed by Nazi forces during World War II.

27.  He spoke with veterans who had defended the city against Nazi forces, and laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

28.  In St. Petersburg, city residents paraded and held a moment of silence for those who died in a three-year siege by Nazi forces.

29.  President Clinton was to receive a report today detailing U.S. failure to make sure victims got back properties such as gold, jewelry and art looted by Nazi forces.

30.  St. Petersburg, known as Leningrad in the Soviet era, was besieged and shelled heavily by Nazi forces for three years during World War II.