Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosecutors last week were trying to prove that the Nazi Leadership Corps, Elite Guard (SS), Storm Troops (SA), Reich Cabinet, Gestapo, High Command and General Staff were criminal organizations, and to draw the line so as to include a third of those who were willing members. Assistant U.S. Prosecutor Robert G. Story called for the conviction of some 600,000 officers of the Leadership Corps, ranging from Reichsleiter to block leaders...
...Bald, stocky Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle had similar doubts at another point: did the prosecution contend that block leaders had taken part in top-level planning...
Since the end of World War II, Franco had been using in his Spanish Foreign Legion thousands of German soldiers and Gestapo personnel who fled from France after the German surrender. But the guerrillas were protected by geography and their own hard-won battle skill...
...Into a Shanghai restaurant came a mild-looking Oriental dressed in a Chinese gown. Suddenly a Chinese woman rose from a table, screamed: "That man! He's not Chinese-he's a Jap! He burned me at the Bridge House!" (headquarters of the notorious Kempeitai, the Japanese Gestapo). She lifted her skirt to show ugly scars across her thighs. In the confusion, the mild-looking man vanished...
...shot down Admiral Yamamoto's plane at Bougainville in 1943. Gossip rustled through the Pacific and into Washington cocktail parties; General Marshall got to the point of asking the FBI to find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs adopted a new code for military attaches. This code remained unbroken more than a year later. The worst...