Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under the principle of "collective responsibility." Another weapon in the arsenal of terror is the deliberate snuffing out of scholars, on the theory that even nonpolitical scholarship breeds a thirst for freedom. Another is torture. When a German policeman was killed in the Czech mining town of Kladno, the Gestapo tortured the mayor and all members of the municipal council to sweat out the name of the killer. By the time it was learned that it was German soldiers who had killed the German policeman, the mayor had committed suicide in prison...
...Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...
...Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, Hangman Heydrich has a spacious, bare-walled office with a big desk for himself, comfortable chairs, a sofa and cigarets for visitors. Foreign diplomats who used to visit him there, to plead or protest for fellow nationals, found him polite, attentive, even affable. But they noticed one thing about him-he never smiled...
Heydrich managed to keep his name out of the papers until three or four years ago. He stood in the shadow behind the lurid light of Heinrich Himmler, head of all the German police. Himmler's top man for the uniformed police is General Kurt Daluege; for the Gestapo, Heydrich. But Heydrich is much more powerful than Daluege, and he might, if it came to a test, prove more powerful even than Himmler. He knows everything that Himmler knows and he has spies everywhere, even in the lairs of his closest associates. For the time being all three...
...Athene Palace the day Paris fell. She found the hotel swarming with "spies of every Intelligence Service in the world; the diplomats and military attaches of great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil men on their way in; Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew...