Word: gestapo
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...true principles of trade unionism, and would have meant some of us joining the dolequeue." To make matters worse, their union's president, its general secretary, and eight of the twelve board members are Communists. In protest against the inspectors ("These snoopers are a new kind of Gestapo dreamed up by the Tories," was the usual Communist response), 361 meter readers went on strike...
...Weissberg, an Austrian citizen, was handed over to the Gestapo in the Russo-Nazi exchange of political prisoners after the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. His later experience in Gestapo prisons (he now lives in Paris) forms no part of this book, which is one of the most searching, intelligent studies of its kind to date, replete with scores of prison case histories and exemplary samples of cool-headed observation. The key question in it (which has haunted Weissberg for years) is the great why? Why, he asks again & again, did Stalin decide to destroy not only a horde...
After a series of hairsbreath but believable escapes from the Gestapo, Happy reaches Mannheim and delivers his information to his teammates. Then he surrenders himself to cover the American's return to headquarters...
...tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer) and a coach (Otto Hulett) with the face and temperament of a Gestapo...
...green? Clear and deep, surely-and with a cold limpid quality that masked her glance better than closed eyelids." Others had gazed into Sylvie Paul's eyes and tried to plumb their mystery-fellow fighters in the Resistance, German officers from whom she coaxed many a secret, Gestapo bullies at Ravensbrück concentration camp...