Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When jurors scoffed at his story that he and his mysterious Resistance band killed only Gestapo hirelings, 49-year-old Petiot proved that at least three of his victims were German agents. As neatly as he had carved up his victims, Petiot parried and thrust at the prosecutors and judge, who conceded grudgingly that he had "won almost every point" in the trial's first days. Points for Petiot...
Died. Clemens August Cardinal von Galen, 68, towering, recently elevated former bishop of Minister; in Frankfurt am Main. He was the second new cardinal to die within a fortnight (first: John Cardinal Glennon of St. Louis-TIME, March 18). His wartime sermons sometimes bluntly defied the Gestapo by spreading the suppressed news of drastic bomb damage, sometimes adroitly jabbed at Nazi ideology...
...house near Munich, 76-year-old Major General Professor Dr. Karl Ernst Nikolas Haushofer, Germany's apostle of geopolitics, last week took poison. His wife took poison also, then hanged herself. His epitaph had already been written - by his son, Albrecht, whom Old Haushofer had denounced to the Gestapo for taking part in the July '44 bomb plot against the Führer. Wrote Albrecht shortly before he was executed last year...
Small groups of police tried to stop the marchers along the route. They were brushed aside. Police motorcycles charged into the lines, scattering the demonstrators. Again the Riot Act was read. The unionists taunted the cops: "Gestapo . . . Nazis . . . Cossacks." They threw stones as well as taunts. At a bridge leading to the plant, it happened all over again-a charge of mounties and foot police, with clubs swinging. Four men went to the hospital; at least 20 were less seriously hurt; 17 were arrested...
...Mayer-Burstyn) was made in 1944-45 by Italians in Italian. The first major film to be produced in the new Italy, it tells a brutally frank story of the German occupation: the worries and dislocations of Roman family life, the work of anti-Fascist partisans, the horrors of Gestapo methods of torture...