Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies could take place any day; they prepared for it by setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command of all Elite Guard units...
...title character is an old English Jew who ventures into the anti-Semitic Germany of 1938 in search of a twelve-year-old refugee's missing mother. On the way he finds himself framed on a murder charge, dragged from bed by the Gestapo, and cast into a Nazi prison. Help comes from a British night club singer who is the toast of Berlin and has no little influence with the military bigwigs of the hour. It is an engrossing story of international adventure that banks on neither unique turns of plot nor an overdose of suspense, but on sensitive...
Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, hulking, ham-handed onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1933), was reported arrested in northern Italy, then freed under close Gestapo surveillance. U.S. sports fans raised their eyebrows at the story, which made out hapless Primo an agile hero: Mrs. Carnera had made some anti-Nazi remarks which resulted in a barroom brawl, which resulted in some flattened-out Germans...
...another with the Nazis. He got his best chance to study Hitler's bigwigs closeup at the Berlin Auto Show, when he talked his way into a restricted area, found himself rubbing elbows with Hitler himself, Hess, Goebbels and Göring. Twice he was arrested by the Gestapo-once for photographing a riot, again for being in a café suspected as a gathering place for people who didn't like Nazis...
Amid the intrigues of Nazi generals and an assorted collection of actresses, Gestapo agents, hostesses, and underground agents (all thrown in to confuse the plot and slow up the action), Martin, who is important to the Allies for some unknown reason, tries to make his escape from the carefully guarded, Hotel Berlin. In the same surroundings, a Nazi general is purged for his part in the plot on Hitler's life and an old, tottering room clerk becomes drafted into der Fuehrer's army in the picture's only humorous scene...