Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about what is going on in the world. When the R.A.F. bombed Oslo they killed some civilians. The quislings made big headings in the paper to show us that Germans resist an awful people trying to bomb out civilians, but we knew the R.A.F. was trying to hit the Gestapo headquarters. It is bad, of course, that civilians have to be killed, but it was a good try and we didn't care...
...They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...
...questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
Field Marshal Blaskowitz' appointment was regarded as a special triumph for Rundstedt. After an outstanding military performance in the Polish campaign, Blaskowitz led an Army group during the Battle of France. But he later quarreled with Hitler's judgment (reportedly over Gestapo excesses which were complicating...
...Influence People. How dangerous the Germans considered their position in France could be judged from the text of a Gestapo memorandum to Secret Military Police, smuggled out of France by the underground...