Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asked a Gestapo officer: "What's the matter? Rommel is not coming back. Whom are you waiting...
Boldness was indicated. The meeting was called for 3 o'clock in a conference room of Oslo's Deichman Library. Along the slush-filled Moellergaten, past the Swedish Church and the grim Gestapo prison at No. 19, crowds splashed all day. From all over the city, underground editors filtered quietly through the throng toward the library...
Pierre Laval sensed that brutal, stocky Joseph Darnand was seeking notoriety and power, thought he could use such a man. Laval sent Darnand to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, who received him magnificently. Since then, Darnand has nurtured his shock troopers, recently showed off their skill in thuggery to a group of Nazi experts visiting Vichy...
...country bumpkin. He "marched" surreptitiously with the Nazis in their beer-hall Putsch, later saw the doors of Landsberg Prison clang behind Hitler. He wrote two of the basic works on Hitlerism: the History of National Socialism and Hitler (TIME, May 25, 1936). Driven under ground by the Gestapo in 1933, he escaped to France in 1935, fought Naziism in books and magazines, fled to Manhattan after the fall of France...
Cooperation with the Allies recently saved thousands of Partisans in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Tipped off that patriots had sneaked into the city to prepare an attack, the Gestapo ordered a 14-hour, house-to-house search. Soldiers had orders to guard the streets, shoot pedestrians. Tito broadcast an urgent appeal to Allied headquarters in Italy. In immediate reply, Allied bombers flew over Zagreb. The Germans had to sound an alarm. In the confusion, most of the Partisans escaped...