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...death of one German soldier and one puppet policeman. Germany was reported to have sent 25,000 more troops to Yugoslavia to deal with guerrillas. The death of General Ludwig von Schroeder, Military Governor of Belgrade, was announced in Berlin. (The British claimed his death was engineered by the Gestapo because he had protested against brutal treatment of the Serbs...
Richard Hottelet, arrested March 15 by Berlin Gestapo agents on charges of spying for an "enemy power," was tossed into a tiny, grim cell in Alexanderplatz prison, deprived of even his eyeglasses "to prevent suicide," left strictly alone for three days-"the hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer...
...With the cooperation of the Swedish Government, Gestapo agents have conducted raids on the homes of Swedish Communists and Left Social Democrats...
...Pillage of National art treasures and libraries was frequently directed not by soldiers or the Gestapo, but by German cultural specialists. Quantities of art treasures have been bundled off to the Reich, of course. Books in the Polish language no longer appear...
Every Christian Science Church, hall and reading room in Germany was padlocked by the Gestapo last week and all Christian Science literature and other property was seized. Fortnight ago the Gestapo had arrested most of the Church's German officials. Though some were released last week, Christian Science is obviously in for suppression for the duration of the Nazi regime...