Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stenia was 23, but she had lived a lifetime of terror. She was a left-winger, a militiawoman, a veteran of the resistance and of Gestapo torture. The Nazis had knocked out two of her front teeth; now, when she smiled, she showed shiny, stainless-steel replacements...
...inevitably exercise great influence on foreign policy. They wanted the control. Opposition to Donovan's plan became so bitter that someone even slipped his memorandum to the Patterson-McCormick press. The New York Daily News howled that the Government intended to set up a "spy director," a U.S. Gestapo and in some manner turn the nation over to the sister of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
...took care of it by hurrying to the Gestapo, reporting his neighbor for Wehrmachtzersetzung-corruption of the Wehrmacht. Mueller's widow paid the execution bill: 474½ marks, including 175 for the gallows, twelve for the rope, eight pfennigs for notification of the verdict...
Arch of Triumph is chiefly the love story of this sadly cynical surgeon and a bit of international flotsam named Joan Madou. It is also a story of the vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character...