Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next before the bar was Boris Theodos-sienko, a White Russian refugee. He had been a petty stool pigeon for the Gestapo, had circulated through the boites, reported whatever anti-German talk his eager ear could catch. For him, seven years at hard labor, confiscation of property...
...Paul Eluard, tall, elegant Surrealist poet turned Communist, emerged as the principal literary figure of French resistance. Hunted by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre, he finally hid in an insane asylum where psychoanalysts and nurses secretly tended Maquis wounded...
...idea of basing a Free Germany on captured German officers and soldiers has been credited to Communist Author Erich Weinert, a bushy-maned Berliner who fought with the International Brigade in Spain, fled from the Gestapo to Russia. He is said to have written a memo to Stalin, who approved...
...Joliot, who in 1935 shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry with his wife, Irene Curie, had his Nazi troubles. His laboratories at Paris and Ivry were seized and in June, 1941 he had a twelve-hour ordeal with the Gestapo. He came through well enough to get back not only his laboratories but also the only French-owned cyclotron and a precious stock of radium.* Says he: "It wasn't funny. But after I had convinced them that I was all right, I was able to get back to work seriously...
...Wehrmacht continued World War II by other means is the theme of this novel by Austrian-born Erwin Lessner. Author Lessner, 46, is an anti-Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction...