Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death of one German soldier and one puppet policeman. Germany was reported to have sent 25,000 more troops to Yugoslavia to deal with guerrillas. The death of General Ludwig von Schroeder, Military Governor of Belgrade, was announced in Berlin. (The British claimed his death was engineered by the Gestapo because he had protested against brutal treatment of the Serbs...
...With the cooperation of the Swedish Government, Gestapo agents have conducted raids on the homes of Swedish Communists and Left Social Democrats...
...Pillage of National art treasures and libraries was frequently directed not by soldiers or the Gestapo, but by German cultural specialists. Quantities of art treasures have been bundled off to the Reich, of course. Books in the Polish language no longer appear...
Every Christian Science Church, hall and reading room in Germany was padlocked by the Gestapo last week and all Christian Science literature and other property was seized. Fortnight ago the Gestapo had arrested most of the Church's German officials. Though some were released last week, Christian Science is obviously in for suppression for the duration of the Nazi regime...
Everybody in Washington expected some inflation last week. To try to freeze and police all U.S. prices now would be a task for a Gestapo, which Washington neither wants nor has the time to put together. Even Leon Henderson, given all the power he wants, expected to be little more than a drag on inflation, stopping advances here & there at strategic points. The problem was seen rather in its overall fiscal aspect: that of increasing total output and keeping consumer buying power down. For the latter, the consumer could count on one thing, whether his prices are controlled...