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Last week, making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the new Lord Templewood was apparently a wiser man. He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo. His long-silent Lordship testified: "I had the Gestapo living in the next house looking over a wall watching every movement I made and constantly trying to suborn my domestic staff. . . . I saw what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture...
Bishop Berggrav's warders are constantly changed, lest his persuasive Christianity corrupt them. Once a month they bring him a few heavily censored books and once a week a letter from his wife. Once a week they take away an answering letter, which his wife must read in Gestapo headquarters. Beyond that, Bishop Berggrav sees no one, talks to no one. Energetic, broad-shouldered and tireless, he spends his days translating the New Testament into modern Norwegian, chopping wood, cleaning his cabin, cooking his meals...
...Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active in the underground who, warned of the Gestapo's coming, said, "I shall let myself be taken because I want the people of France to know there are priests too who are willing to give their lives. I ask only all your prayers that I may have the strength necessary to resist torture." Though the Gestapo tore...
Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight...
...Slovakian doctors and nurses, at first against his will, kept him alive. He was a hero. The Polish underground movement voted him a decoration. The military division of the Polish Socialist Party was ordered to rescue him at any cost, or shoot him if they failed. They bribed a Gestapo guard and picked up Karski after he had jumped from a hospital window...