Word: gestapo
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...clothes when the naked, groaning creature in the tub thrashed in agony. And it kept Denise near her lover, a highly unrefined German named Friedrich Berger. For Friedrich, Denise performed the task of inscribing the confessions of French Resistance fighters who had fallen into the clutches of the Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe...
...Rape. Grimly the judges ticked off the charges against Denise and her companions: treason (in the cases of all twelve French citizens), murder, espionage, association with criminals, and, here & there, a bit of rape. ". . . The Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe," intoned the court, "was . . . most infamous . . . The tragic figures can be translated thus: more than 300 arrests, 160 deportations to Germany, of whom 50 died in concentration camps, 40 shot...
Storey claimed Ellison shouted, at various times, "All policemen are grafters. What are you, Dever's gestapo? Down with the police, Boo." Shohet had also been shouting and running, he said...
When police seized the 46-year-old heckler and hustled him out of the Palmer House grand ballroom, he accused them of "gestapo tactics" and of being "fascists." He did not pay to get in to the $50-a-plate dinner...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. How eight Jews escaped the Gestapo for two years by hiding in an Amsterdam office building, recorded in the memorable journal of a teen-ager (TIME, June...