Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French citizenship rights were given 500 Gestapo agents to be sent to Vichyfrance...
Stefan Heym, 29, is editor of New York's anti-Nazi weekly Deutsches Volksecho. He fled the Gestapo in 1933. His father, seized as a hostage, later committed suicide. Author Heym's novel is dedicated to his father's memory...
...night of Thursday, Oct. 9, 1941, in Prague" (said a Nazi public notice) "Lieut. Erich Glasenapp [of the German] 431st Infantry Division was assassinated. . . . TWENTY HOSTAGES will be shot within a week, if the murderer or murderers are not apprehended." The notice was signed by Colonel Reinhardt, Gestapo Commissioner of conquered Prague...
Commissioner Reinhardt knew that Lieut. Glasenapp had committed suicide. But Reinhardt reported that Glasenapp had been murdered because among the Gestapo's hostages was a Nazi collaborationist, Lev Preissinger, coal king of Prague. After shooting Hostage Preissinger the Nazis could confiscate his mines and at the same time show troublesome Czech workers that Naziism does not respect rich capitalists...
...strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from portraying them all as violent, drooling, bully-boys. There is an ingeniously written part of a Gestapo officer that ranks as one of the best minor parts Hollywood has turned out in a long time...