Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Hans Lachmann-Mosse, 59, former publisher of the late, great Berliner Tageblatt, No. 1 liberal German newspaper, confiscated by the Nazis in 1933; after long illness; in Oakland, Calif. Forced by the Gestapo to flee Germany after relinquishing his publishing business, he settled in France, fled again when France was invaded...
Underground courts pass judgment on ultrabrutal Gestapomen. Special squads carry out the sentences. A British artist, working from a description supplied by a Polish underground officer, limned one of these epics of revenge (see cut). Several months ago death was decreed for Gestapo-man Franz Buerckl, Governor of Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. One day, as Buerckl walked the streets with wife and child, a Polish fiddler whipped a tommy gun from his violin case, shot Buerckl down, fought it out with his motorcycle escort...
...tanks and planes, surprised an underground camp. After a day's fighting and severe losses, the Poles broke out of a German ring, dispersed in the forest, left behind 400 dead and wounded enemies. More typical exploits: setting fire to German tank cars, derailing German troop transports, raiding Gestapo prisons, burning down German colonists' villages in retaliation for Polish Lidices...
Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was sunbathing when the revolt began. But he was not caught entirely off guard. His pervasive Gestapo had jailed opposition leaders and other citizens who objected a few weeks ago when he prolonged his tenure until 1949 and tightened his already arbitrary rule...
...heel. This time Cinemactor Flynn is an Occupied-French murderer who is about to be guillotined when some opportune British bombs help him to escape. A dowdy Parisian plain-clothes man (Paul Lukas) recaptures him in a village where saboteurs have just blown up a bridge and the Gestapo is about to shoot 100 hostages in reprisal. Result: one of those ethical problems that bedevil Warner Bros.' pictures: Should the detective turn over his prisoner to the Vichy police or let Cinemactor Flynn impersonate the saboteur and thus free the hostages from the Gestapo? The problem is mildly complicated...