Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afrique medal). Once she was asked to give a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. To avoid playing for the Germans, she wrapped the fingers of her right hand in a bandage, pretending that she had just had an accident and kept them wrapped up for weeks. Once two Gestapo agents invaded her house to look for some papers her brother (a member of the Resistance) had hidden. Next night, Nicole appeared on the concert stage bruised and bandaged-this time for cause. What had happened was very simple: "J'étais" Nicole explains, "knockouted...
...risks; a single muddleheaded moment might have ruined him. Despite the author's simplicity, the reader gradually becomes aware of his extraordinary energy and coolness. But the book is not only an adventure story but a family history, told by a devout and loving father. Remy flouted the Gestapo for over a year and a half with a wife and four children on his hands. And he learned his job as he went along...
...Bergerac, in the Dordogne, where his host was a small, salty squire, the father of eight, with a fine disdain for the conquerors. When, he asked, would Renault like to slip across into the German zone? After Renault replied "tomorrow," he realized that he was scared stiff of the Gestapo...
...attitude changed later. The first time Renault was picked up, with his pockets bulging with dispatches, he talked so fast and furiously that his slow-witted examiner gave up and let him go without even searching him. After his network had been sending out messages for several months, the Gestapo located one of his transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul, can be explained only...
Although it had nothing to do with the case at trial, Lipinski's prosecutor tried to prove him a Nazi collaborator. Lipinski was arrested by the Gestapo, and later released, because he had advised Polish underground General Bor-Komorowski against the abortive 1944 Warsaw uprising which caused the Germans to destroy the city. Poles were not likely to forget that Moscow had also denounced Bor's uprising, after Radio Moscow called for it, and that the Red Army only a few miles away had not moved to save Bor from the Germans...