Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wehrmacht officers learned months ago that their swagger Mercedés-Benz staff cars were death traps in occupied Russian territory: guerrilla snipers gave special attention to these chariots of the mighty. In dangerous territory Nazi officers prudently changed to the cramped obscurity of flivver Volkswagen. But Gestapo officials persisted in riding in the style to which they were accustomed...
LONDON, Friday--The German Gestapo, launching a wave of Czech executions in reprisal for the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, has slain six members of a single family, including two women, the Nazi-controlled Prague radio announced today...
Ominously the broadcast said the vengeance executions had "started," implying that the former republic of Czechoslovakia was in for a blood bath because of the attack on Heydrich, "the hangman" and deputy leader of the Gestapo, who admittedly was in a grave condition...
While their pupils were clubbed in schoolrooms by storm troopers, about 98% of Norway's teachers refused to sign up with the Quisling Union. Quisling closed the schools for a month. When that failed, he gave the go-ahead to the Gestapo. Arrests in Norway totaled around 2,000, and 1,000 teachers went to concentration camps. Remembering colleagues who had been herded off to the Kirkenes mines, above the Arctic Circle, Norwegian teachers last week were in no mood to be coaxed...
...year-old) climbed up again, wove some more, later let himself down again all 60 feet to the moat. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he spent eleven days on obscure roads and railroads leading to Switzerland, Occupied France and Vichy. His closest call came when the Gestapo searched a train on which he was talking with a German officer. He got the German into such a hot argument that the Gestapo did not wish to interrupt the officer with inquiries...