Word: gestapo
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...keep the Turks from fighting on the side of the Allies. Eventually, Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and Von Papen returned to the Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested by the Gestapo," but Von Papen had done nothing to deserve such a fate, and was scarcely the man to walk open-eyed to his doom. When he got home, Hitler handed him another medal: the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Merit...
...unoccupied Southern France. He very nearly failed to make it. Alarmed by the North African invasion, the Germans had decided to take over Vichy France. At the Swiss border, Dulles was held up by a French official who seemed more impressed by the watchful eye of the local Gestapo man than by Dulles' impassioned references to Lafayette and Pershing. Finally, when the Nazi ambled off to a tavern for his regular noontime beer, the Frenchman gave Dulles the nod, and he crossed into Switzerland, the last American to arrive there legally for nearly two years...
...anti-Nazi German intelligence officer, Dulles learned the details of the German underground's plot to assassinate Hitler. Dulles was never able to persuade the Allied powers to support the conspirators, but when the plot failed, he did succeed in saving Gisevius, who fled Germany with forged Gestapo papers and a Gestapo identification ring-all supplied...
...tampered with his biography later to suggest that he had stayed for a while in Berlin to fight in the underground). He was the man to eliminate any comrades in Spain who had begun to doubt Stalin. In the Stockholm underground in 1940, he methodically turned over to the Gestapo any comrades in hiding who expressed dismay over the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. West Berlin police still hold a yellowed warrant for Ulbricht's arrest for the murder of two policemen...
...political grip is neither Gestapo-like nor especially sinister, but he quietly exercises a kind of all-embracing, behind-the-scenes influence which has largely vanished from more-complicated areas of the country. Though Biltz is a Republican, crusty old Democratic Senator Pat Mc-Carran communes with him from Washington almost daily by long-distance telephone. Nevada's bumbling G.O.P. Senator Malone is beholden to him. And Biltz hand-picked Nevada's Governor Charles Russell. As a result, Nevada's big gamblers (who are also big campaign contributors) listen when Biltz whispers, for the gover nor appoints...