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I'm trying to replace, say, the flag of Malta with another flag

I've gotten to that part, but I don't know which part of the html to edit.
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32 British collaborationist officials were trialled for their involvement with the Third Reich's occupation of Britain. None are as famous as Unity Mitford.

A British socialité, her story precedes the landings of Germany's fearsome armies in Dover. Her sister, Diana, was engaged in a relationship with none other than Oswald Mosley, at the time merely a rabble-rousing fascist with scarce political prospects. It was through Mosley that Unity Mitford first became associated with far-right politics. She would commonly assist Mosley's rallies, becoming an increasingly more adamant admirer of fascism.

Mitford would partake in the Mosley delegation to the 1933 Nuremberg Rally in Germany. It was here that she first established a connection with Adolf Hitler, and solidified her complete attachment to Nazism and the fascist movement as a whole. The two would immediately develop a close friendship, stemming from their mutual interest in Germanic culture and their shared political views. Throughout the 1930's, Mitford would plant herself as one of the most notorious members of Hitler's intimate circle of close friends.

When war broke out, Unity Mitford was the only member of her family to remain in Germany. The idea that her two beloved homelands, Britain and Germany, would be pitted in struggle plunged her into a deep depression. According to testimonies that surfaced during her trial, she "seriously considered suicide", going insofar as to "becoming accustomed to the grip of a pistol".

Her ardent support for Hitler's regime "reinvigorated" her, particularly following the success of Germany's campaigns in Poland and France. When Paris capitulated in June 1940, Mitford travelled to the French capital and became acquainted with the city's social elite. Her exceptional charisma and outgoing personality made her instantly popular. "France adored her," it would later be said. "Hitler noticed that Unity Mitford, his seemingly innocuous British friend, could be of use after all".

Despite Churchill's roaring defiance, Britain was not devoid of sympathizers towards the Nazi regime. "There were more than a few individuals of considerable notoriety who wouldn't, and indeed didn't, mind German boots in London". Mitford's connections to England were a valuable asset for Hitler, as they allowed him to mobilize this pool of dormant support and to soften the higher echelons of British society to the prospects of a German occupation.

When Operation Sea Lion took place, and Churchill's government departed for Canada in December, Great Britain fell to German occupation. It was during the long months of Nazi overlordship that Mitford reached "the height of her life". Her most precious fantasies became a reality: Britain and Germany, united under the banner of National Socialism. Mitford would play a crucial role as the collaborationist regime took shape: she rallied support for the leadership of a newly relevant Oswald Mosley, coordinated with monarchists and the second ascension of Edward VIII, and overall built rapport with the influential members of Britain's aristocracy. "She was the fundamental connection between British society and Adolf Hitler". Her prominence in Occupied Britain made her one of the most recognizable Britons under Nazi rule. She was something of a celebrity, the epitome of high life under National Socialism.

Controversy remains as to the extent of her involvement in the crimes of Occupied Britain. There was no question that she was an antisemite, an important element to her identification with Nazism. The principal argument fielded by the prosecution during her sensational trial was that Mitford actively assisted in the finding and imprisonment of British Jews, using her connections to reveal the location of hidden Jews. Accounts exist of her seducing "bank owners, politicians, owners of business, army men, and other such people" into betraying people who hid Jews. The defense countered that these arguments were based on highly anecdotal evidence with little judicial value.

It was also argued that before and during the war, Mitford revealed sensitive information to the Nazis via her acquaintances. Reports from the SS were produced showing that Mitford provided detailed descriptions of the defenses in Britain weeks before Sea Lion. Additionally, she was "most likely" involved in the assassination of Edward Wood, the 3rd Viscount Halifax, in 1942.

Despite the general lack of concrete evidence, once the Nazis were defeated in 1947 and Soviet troops liberated Britain, Unity Mitford was considered "a high-priority target" for the Military Tribunal of Great Britain. She was arrested in April 1949 in Denmark, attempting to reach neutral Sweden, and deported back to the United Kingdom. Proceedings against her began in September 1951, and they would not conclude until her conviction the following January. Out of the 29 people convicted by the MTGB, only ten were sentenced to death, Mitford among them. On the 25th of February, she was executed by firing squad in London.

The amount of media interest surrounding the trial, coupled with personal interests within the jurors, have been listed as causes for a potentially unreasonable conviction, not to mention a death sentence. Evidence against her was "debatable at best, blatantly fabricated at worst". Her legacy would be further immortalized by the 1965 American film Blonde Girl, which dramatizes her life in the Third Reich.

Selena Adams, Makers of Justice: Anecdotes From Britain's Greatest Trial ​
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This could be an timeline if you can get around the Sea Lion POD. It’s fantastically written!
 

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Red Dead Redemption is a 1932 Revisionist Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer, and starring Buck Jones as John Marston, a former outlaw who is blackmailed by two law enforcement agents into hunting down the last living members of his former gang.

The movie is an adaptation of the 1923 bestseller "Red Dead Redemption: The Epilogue of Outlaw John Marston", by Jack Marston. Himself the son of the eponymous protagonist, having grown up in the infamous "Dutch Van der Linde Gang", until its collapse in 1899, he wrote the book as a testimony of his father's last days. The book and it's 1921 predecessor "The true story of the Van der Linde Gang", had been massive bestsellers, propelling Marston to the top of the american literary world. Studios had spent years fighting for the rights until the author relented, in the condition that he write the screenplay.

Originally planned as a two-parter, the first book was deemed far too grand and ambitious to be made into a movie without major script changes. Production of "Red Dead Redemption" was shot on location in New Austin, West Elizabeth and the Mexican state of Nuevo Paraiso. At the time the most expensive movie ever made, it was riddled with tension and conflict between writer, director, actors and studio.

A massive box-office success, the movie soon became a staple of the Western Genre. Though its violent nature and the portrayal of a outlaw as a morally good figure, and law enforcement as villains generated criticism from many groups. One noted critic was Archer Fordham Jr. whose father, Archer Fordham Sr. is portrayed as a corrupt FIB Agent.

The movie was dedicated to John Marston, Abigail Marston, Arthur Morgan (deceased former member of the gang), and Charles Smith (former member of the gang, presumed deceased). Noted among the figures in the first screening of the movie were the two last living members of the gang: legendady (retired) female bounty hunter Sadie Adler, and popular novelist Mary-Beth Gaskill.

Many other movies were produced ever since focused on the "Van der Linde Gang" and John Marston. Among them 1956's "The Searcher" (in which John Wayne portrays the heroic US Agent Edgar Ross hunting the last members of the gang), 1968' "The Good, the Bad and the Dead", and 1992's "The Forgiven".​
 
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Red Dead Redemption is a 1932 Revisionist Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer, and starring Buck Jones as John Marston, a former outlaw who is blackmailed by two law enforcement agents into hunting down the last living members of his former gang.

The movie is an adaptation of the 1923 bestseller "Red Dead Redemption: The Epilogue of Outlaw John Marston", by Jack Marston. Himself the son of the eponymous protagonist, having grown up in the infamous "Dutch Van der Linde Gang", until its collapse in 1899, he wrote the book as a testimony of his father's last days. The book and it's 1921 predecessor "The true story of the Van der Linde Gang", had been massive bestsellers, propelling Marston to the top of the american literary world. Studios had spent years fighting for the rights until the author relented, in the condition that he write the screenplay.

Originally planned as a two-parter, the first book was deemed far too grand and ambitious to be made into a movie without major script changes. Production of "Red Dead Redemption" was shot on location in New Austin, West Elizabeth and the Mexican state of Nuevo Paraiso. At the time the most expensive movie ever made, it was riddled with tension and conflict between writer, director, actors and studio.

A massive box-office success, the movie soon became a staple of the Western Genre. Though its violent nature and the portrayal of a outlaw as a morally good figure, and law enforcement as villains generated criticism from many groups. One noted critic was Archer Fordham Jr. whose father, Archer Fordham Sr. is portrayed as a corrupt FIB Agent.

The movie was dedicated to John Marston, Abigail Marston, Arthur Morgan (deceased former member of the gang), and Charles Smith (former member of the gang, presumed deceased). Noted among the figures in the first screening of the movie were the two last living members of the gang: legendady (retired) female bounty hunter Sadie Adler, and popular novelist Mary-Beth Gaskill.

Many other movies were produced ever since focused on the "Van der Linde Gang" and John Marston. Among them 1956's "The Searcher" (in which John Wayne portrays the heroic US Agent Edgar Ross hunting the last members of the gang), 1968' "The Good, the Bad and the Dead", and 1992's "The Forgiven".​
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Is it supposed to be "Red" or "Read"? Because the wikbox says Read Dead Redemption while the article says Red Dead Redemption.
 
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Very interesting stuff here. How do you make one of those maps?
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The gold standard of ways (which I would recommend) is to download Inkscape and use the Fill and Stroke menu to recolor states/districts/etc., but a lot of people just use screenshots from US Election Atlas or 270 to Win.
 

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Is it supposed to be "Red" or "Read"? Because the wikbox says Read Dead Redemption while the article says Red Dead Redemption.
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Oh COME ON!
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