Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form of a triple question . . . Vichy? Gestapo? OGPU? ... He [knows] how to recognize the agents of the OGPU," for he has had enough experience with them. But this time it is the Gestapo, which wishes him to become a Russian Lord Haw-Haw. Stepanoff gathers together the tag-ends of heroism, starves himself and cuts his wrist...
...when "good" Germans were hard to find, American officers summoned him from his village of Mahlow. They knew his record: he was a onetime (1920-27) publicist for the Krupp works at Essen, later an anti-Nazi novelist and broadcaster. During the war he had escaped the Gestapo's notice by dropping his pen name of Reger for his real name, Hermann Dannenberger...
...Gestapo troops raided student hostels, dragged off 1,500 to tortures, beatings and concentration camps. The Nazis imprisoned 51 professors; 21 were executed or died in camps. Caravans of Nazi trucks carted off millions of books...
...author, an intelligence officer with a British parachute detachment, dropped into the pine forests surrounding the village. The Germans knew that the hills held marauding Maquis and parachutists, but they never knew how pitifully few there were. Every man in the village could have told them. Accordingly, the Gestapo rounded up all the men in the village-210-and sent them to concentration camps, where 140 of them perished. Not one betrayed the men in the hills...
Under his real name of Colonel General August Heiszmeyer, Stuckebrock had been head of the "Ubergestapo"-the Supreme SS Tribunal, the Gestapo of the Gestapo. As Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Frau Stuckebrock was Hitler's No. 1 Nazi woman, director of all the women's organizations in the Reich. According to Nürnberg's war criminals' list, Heiszmeyer was "presumed dead," Scholtz-Klink was "dead." Witnesses had "identified" her body among those removed from Hitler's Berlin air-raid bunker...