Word: gestapo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, to aristocratic Italians, and thus to the "King's party," the alliance with Germany is plainly abhorrent. They dislike the fact that the German Gestapo operates in Italy. They long for the days when Italy followed Britain's lead in international affairs. They are but little impressed by II Duce's imperial ambitions. In a war they would try to keep Italy from becoming the ally of Germany...
...named Heinrich Himmler. Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, State Councillor of Prussia, deputy of the Reichstag, Herr Himmler is better known for two other far more important titles: Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (the famed, black-uniformed 55 Guards), and Inspector of the dread, notorious Gestapo (State Secret Police). From the founder and ruler of the Third Reich's State Secret Police there can be few State secrets...
Birthday. Meanwhile, if nothing intervenes, Greater Germany will vociferously acclaim the soth birthday of its creator and Führer this week. On the same day-April 20-Herr Himmler will quietly, without public fanfare, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his appointment as Inspector of the Gestapo. Troops will march down Berlin's Unter den Linden and through the crowded Tiergarten as the 50-year-old Führer receives the frenzied homage of an adoring nation. Clustered around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field...
Herr Heinrich Jurges, who claims once to have been Dr. Joseph Goebbels' secretary, exposed the scheme "to avenge the death of his wife and her mother at the hands of the Gestapo." He produced a letter addressed to the Reich's Colonial Organization which declared that Patagonia is "nobody's land and we can annex it," and which told exactly how it could done. The signatures on the letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices...
...weeks private correspondents from Czecho-Slovakia had spoken of the intense activity in Prague of German Gestapo agents. For a year young men like those who had circulated around Vienna in 1937-38, dropping a word here and a word there for Naziism, had been active in Prague. The swift, smooth pace of the occupation (see p. 17) showed that the Germans had made organized preparations for it well in advance...