Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Methodically cleaning up their enemies, Gestapo and affiliated agents were ferreting last week in a dozen European countries, and as they worked, names almost forgotten in the Blitztempo of events again turned...
...gaunt, Machiavellian man was arrested at the Rumanian frontier. He was onetime Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck, who had counted Hermann Göring among his hunting friends, escaped Göring's airmen by fleeing to Rumania in September 1939. Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport...
...Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, Poland's rusted little iron man and chief of her vanquished Army, who deserted his fighting troops and skipped across to Rumania a jump ahead of the German Army. From his Carpathian mountain villa, where he had led a life of dignified internment, the Gestapo hauled him to Bucharest for investigation in connection with alleged espionage and sabotage in Rumania, said to involve 7,000 refugee Poles...
...enclosing herewith a letter which I have received from France. . . . The letter is unsigned for the obvious reason that the writer feared that it might fall into the hands of the Gestapo...
...humored to this small extent in view of the fact that Germany had not yet put the screws on Spain to join the Axis. That the screws might soon be applied was evident from the arrival in Madrid last week of Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the efficient Gestapo. Colonel Beigbeder resigned in a huff, his Foreign Ministry going to Serrano Suner. If the Germans are to run Spain, as the potential liaison man Serrano took a step up. If not, down...