Word: gestapo
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...prosecutors last week were trying to prove that the Nazi Leadership Corps, Elite Guard (SS), Storm Troops (SA), Reich Cabinet, Gestapo, High Command and General Staff were criminal organizations, and to draw the line so as to include a third of those who were willing members. Assistant U.S. Prosecutor Robert G. Story called for the conviction of some 600,000 officers of the Leadership Corps, ranging from Reichsleiter to block leaders...
...Bald, stocky Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle had similar doubts at another point: did the prosecution contend that block leaders had taken part in top-level planning...
...Richard denounced the bordellos on physical, patriotic and economic as well as moral grounds. They were responsible for the sharp upsurge in venereal disease: only three doctors serviced the 7,000 prostitutes. They were deep-dyed collaborationist: they had accommodated German soldiers by the truckload, provided the Gestapo with stool pigeons, paid tribute to the most hated Vichyites, including Pierre Laval. They spawned black marketeers. They viciously monopolized 6,000 rooms much needed for decent folk...
Since the end of World War II, Franco had been using in his Spanish Foreign Legion thousands of German soldiers and Gestapo personnel who fled from France after the German surrender. But the guerrillas were protected by geography and their own hard-won battle skill...
...Into a Shanghai restaurant came a mild-looking Oriental dressed in a Chinese gown. Suddenly a Chinese woman rose from a table, screamed: "That man! He's not Chinese-he's a Jap! He burned me at the Bridge House!" (headquarters of the notorious Kempeitai, the Japanese Gestapo). She lifted her skirt to show ugly scars across her thighs. In the confusion, the mild-looking man vanished...