Word: gestapo
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...Heel. A few weeks after Yeo-Thomas was flown back to England, the Gestapo threw a force of 32,000 agents into Paris, concentrated on the task of breaking the Resistance. Yeo-Thomas was rushed back to France. The Gestapo found out he was there. For eight wild weeks "The White Rabbit" (as he was known to his home office) scuttled about France from rendezvous to rendezvous, with the German police breathing down his neck...
...Once the Gestapo got advance word of a rendezvous, and lay in wait for him, but Yeo-Thomas spotted a police car in the neighborhood, and shied away. Several times a day he changed his hat, his scarf, or put a peg in his heel to alter his manner of walking. Yeo-Thomas and his associates managed to keep the Resistance from collapse...
...haben Shelley!" screamed the Gestapo agents, and as they threw their prisoner into a police car, began to smash their fists into his face. The treatment continued at Gestapo headquarters; it was refined to a point where Author Marshall drops the subject. To his own amazement, and to the complete confusion of the Gestapo, Yeo-Thomas did not once break down. When he felt himself near collapse, he tried to throw himself out of a window, but one of the torturers caught his legs and hauled him back...
...Shoot!" The Gestapo gave up first-after three days of constant torture -and Yeo-Thomas was sent to Fresnes Prison. Condemned to death, he was spared at the last moment; one of his friends in the Resistance had traced him down, and offered the Gestapo officer in charge of his case 4,000,000 francs to lose the Shelley file. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to Germany as a common criminal...
Before he got there, the double-dealing of the Gestapo officer was discovered, and the White Rabbit was again condemned to death. He was sent to Buchenwald with 36 other Resistance workers, for execution. For some reason, sentence was delayed. Yeo-Thomas tried to bully and bribe two of the camp's Gestapo officers into a plot to save the 21 who were still alive, but they refused to save more than three-one of the three to be Yeo-Thomas, who was to tell British Intelligence who had delivered...