Word: gestapo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretender, but a newly-minted Regent of Belgium was Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, younger brother of captive King Leopold. For three months before the liberation, the Gestapo hunted high & low for Prince Charles. They could have found him, fighting with the Belgian Maquis in the High Ardennes. When he turned up at the Royal Palace in Brussels last week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then...
...behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch slave labor gangs barricaded themselves in their barracks, sang their national anthems. The SS apparently lacked the men to stop them. Elsewhere foreign workers were stepping up sabotage by slowing down production...
...Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...French Gestapo Boss Pierre Bony was caught by patriots. He was disguised as a hobo. With him was his aide, Henry La Font, disguised as a hired farm hand...
...from the Resistance: "It is cruel and unnecessary. They are soldiers' women, and tomorrow they will be sleeping with the Americans. What difference does it make whether the man is German or American or Japanese? I have worked for liberation. Three times I have been questioned by the Gestapo. You understand? [She made a slapping gesture.] And I do not demand such a thing as this...