Word: gestapo
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...postwar dustbin with other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
...Riviera one night in August 1944, a pianist lazily fingered a nostalgic ballad from a crudely cleffed manuscript. Some G.I.s at the bar asked to hear it again. The musician played it once more, and then told its history. A Jewish friend of his in Nice, hunted by the Gestapo, had written it three years before, had left it with a publisher, then fled to the Alpes-Maritimes to join a band of the Maquis. Its title reflected its composer's despair: C'est Fini (It Is Finished...
...included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...
Heinrich Himmler was found to have compiled a Who's Who for automatic arrest in the event of a German invasion of England. The Gestapo blacklist, discovered in his Berlin headquarters, ranged from Winston Churchill to Noel Coward and David...
...Captured in Japan Gestapo Colonel Joseph Meisinger, whom Lee identified as the "Brutal Butcher of Warsaw." Colonel Meisinger obligingly signed: "I have surrendered today to Clark Lee, Bob Brumby of Mutual Broadcasting and John A. Bockhorst of News of the Day Newsreel...