Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal organizations such as the Gestapo and the SS should be judged as groups, possibly by the same international court. Once blanket punishment had been decreed, individuals could be tried only on the question of membership...
...confinement at Sachsenhausen and Dachau. But unlike most other concentration-camp prisoners, he was given permission ("without begging for it") to have books. He had read 300 volumes of English literature. His wife was allowed half-hour visits with him twice a month-always in the presence of the Gestapo...
...Stern trial and punishment, not only of the top Nazis but to "extend down vertically into the population for a certain distance." To be executed: all high Nazi and Gestapo officials, Gauleiters, members of the Army High Command who helped to mistreat occupied countries, lesser officials who zealously carried out Nazi policies. To be imprisoned for life: all smaller fry who acted with "singular cruelty." To be interned, exiled or held in labor battalions: all incurable antidemocrats...
...suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (as reported from Stockholm), or had "fallen in his command post at the Reich chancellery" (as reported by the Hamburg radio, which said that he had been succeeded as Führer by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz), or was a prisoner of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler as a political force had been expunged. If he were indeed dead, the hope of most of mankind had been realized. For seldom had so many millions of people hoped so implacably for the death...
...Dream. By night big Russian searchlights focused their rays down the battle-broken streets into the wide Alexander Platz, where Soviet shells clipped at the Gestapo headquarters and its hundreds of fanatics. Other beams poked into the last little fortress of scorched chestnut trees that had been the cool, fresh Tiergarten...