Word: gestapo
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...constituent telling how a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman had said that she would be framed and that the Mounties had been ordered to "keep their eyes and ears open" because she would soon be interned. "I would say," she went on, "that if this Canadian version of the Gestapo continues . . . the Government will have to answer to the Canadian people...
...Nazi leadership and named the order in which he would erase them. Said the onetime appeasement-minded former Ambassador to Germany, who was in at the death of Czecho-Slovakia: "If I were given a gun and told to take two shots, I would shoot Himmler [Gestapo Chief], then Ribbentrop [Foreign Minister], and brain Hitler with the butt of the rifle...
...Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State's Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi "new order." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to respect Norwegian church and civil laws, resoundingly detailed examples of brutal violence by Quisling's "uniformed hooligans," challenged Nazi banning of preachers' vow of secrecy - "the foundation of the church, the Magna Charta of the conscience." The Bishops expected no satisfactory answer from the State's Councilor...
...mobilizable strength at 4,400,000 (35% of Germany's man power between the ages of 18 and 40); 550,000 were estimated to be in the Luftwaffe and anti-aircraft arms; 200,000 in the Navy, 20,000 in coast artillery, 200,000 in the Gestapo, 400,000 on service as armies of occupation...
...identity. He called himself Jan Valtin. He claimed that he was: 1) an ex-German Communist; 2) an ex-international organizer of seamen and harbor workers; 3) an ex-agent of the Communist International; 4) an ex-co-worker of the OGPU; 5) an escaped prisoner of the Gestapo; 6) an escaped prisoner of the OGPU; 7) a man wanted dead or alive by both. What he had to tell seemed pretty well to substantiate his claims...