Word: gestapo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strakova Akademie in Prague's sleepy, baroque Mala Strana (Little Town) had been a school for young nobles under the Habsburgs and a Gestapo court under the Nazis. Last week it had a new tenant. Out of its modernized office suites walked mousy-looking Social Democrat Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, to be Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia. In came tough-looking Communist Vice Premier Klement Gottwald to be Premier...
...Rousset was a diligent researcher in TIME'S Paris Bureau before the war. After the occupation, he adopted the somewhat more exciting work of organizing anti-Nazi groups inside the German Army. A spy got into Rousset's organization and all the Germans were executed, but the Gestapo could not find evidence linking Rousset with the plot; he got off with a year and a half in five concentration camps. The U.S. Army liberated him from the last...
Once they set foot in her apartment, Gisele's "boys" were there to stay. They dozed in the daytime, stayed awake nights "so there would not be too many warm beds in case of a Gestapo raid." Three of the hunted, Peter Goldschmidt (22), Simon van Keulen (19) and Harry Op het Veld (19) spent their nights sitting around a table lit by a wick in brilliantine, drawing. There was not much paper, so they took as long as possible on each picture...
...Nazi-held France, but leaves all novelty behind. Most of the incidents based on real O.S.S. experiences turn out to be the old, threadbare ingredients of wartime melodrama: contacting the French underground, short-waving vital messages to London, dynamiting a railway tunnel, throwing the beautiful female operator to the Gestapo wolf...
That night, when Mr. Silkin rose to speak at the town hall, he was greeted with yells of "Gestapo!" "Hark, the dictator!" "We want our birthright!" Red-faced Mr. Silkin shouted back: "Really, you are the most ungenerous people...