Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame a dictator like Roosevelt for getting a bit hot under the collar when a paper like TIME picked Joseph Stalin as the most outstanding personality of 1942. So Roosevelt ordered his troops to arrest 53 [American] newspaper and magazine editors. . . . Shades of the Gestapo. Fifty-three editors in one swoosh...
...Axis eyes, you are enemies because you are men, and even more enemies because you are young. So far as the Gestapo, the OVRA, and the Japanese Army Special Service Section are concerned, you have signed your death warrants by coming to Harvard...
...Children, a full-length movie, confects a boy-girl romance as a vehicle for Ziemer's report on Nazi child-training. In Berlin a German-born U.S. schoolgirl meets a U.S.-born German lad who is being indoctrinated in a Nazi school. Several years later he is a Gestapo officer, she a teacher at Berlin's American school. In the course of their tragic, not too credible romance, the camera visits German parents fearful that their offspring will snitch on them, a girls' work camp where rabbit morals are encouraged, a state home for unwed mothers (beams...
Swart, pig-eyed Pierre Laval could have things his own way now in France. With dictatorial powers granted to him by old Marshal Pétain, with the Gestapo by his side in a country now fully under German occupation, he, free of the check-reins of government, felt he could thumb his bulbous nose at public opinion. These were main items on the well-filled Laval calendar...
Mary Booth, still in her Salvation Army uniform, had no easy time at Petershausen. When she arrived, together with her short, plump secretary, the Gestapo men said disgustedly: "Ach, the Salvation Army's coming!" To them she was a constant source of ridicule; to her fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three...