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Word: buerckl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Underground courts pass judgment on ultrabrutal Gestapomen. Special squads carry out the sentences. A British artist, working from a description supplied by a Polish underground officer, limned one of these epics of revenge (see cut). Several months ago death was decreed for Gestapo-man Franz Buerckl, Governor of Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. One day, as Buerckl walked the streets with wife and child, a Polish fiddler whipped a tommy gun from his violin case, shot Buerckl down, fought it out with his motorcycle escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Under the Jackboots I | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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