Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the newscasters put the matter up to their home offices. Excluded from visits to battle fronts, forbidden to quote directly from German newspapers, forbidden to so much as mention the current anti-Semitic drive or Gestapo rule in Czecho-Slovakia, they were further annoyed by Nazi blue pencilers who tried to add to their copy as well as slash...
Totalitarianism is already here. . . . Hitler and Goebbels never went further." Editor Morrison well knew this last statement was not true. The same day the LaGuardia request became public, word leaked out of Germany that the Gestapo had jailed the dean of Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral for "offering prayers for Jews." By way of contrast, the Mayor pointed out that nobody had to use his sermon, and sundry clergymen rallied to his support...
...state that he had really meant "the general period of 1935-36." Shortly he was sent to Manchukuo with the Kwantung Army, where he redeemed himself by becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo's "bogey man." In 1937, when General Itagaki...
Around its conference tables last week, the Gestapo was none too pleased with itself. One of its biggest jobs was not getting done. Throughout Occupied Europe pudgy Heinrich Himmler and his lean Chief Executioner Reinhard Heydrich kept hanging and shooting rebels. But still the revolt went...
...Gestapo itself was on trial. So far it had failed to finish the job. but it still had hope...