Word: gestapoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Cooper finds Lorenz, he discovers that the Gestapo had ways of cracking even heroes, that those once tortured seldom successfully faced a second dose. Said one Gestapo victim, "indicating the gaudy Christ-on-the-Cross on the wall behind him, 'I'll wager that even He would not have undertaken it a second time. Not for anybody...
When he found himself at Stalag Luff I in Germany, Greening was "sort of worn out from the going over the Gestapo gave me." There was nothing at all to do, and Greening discovered that "from inaction the guys were going around the bend. So after a while I tried to work up a craft committee, but still some of them stayed in their sacks all the time...
Armed with picks, dynamite, ropes and spidery wire ladders, the French speleologists pushed deep into both these geological intestinal tracts. During the German occupation they set out each time with stealth, lest their odd-looking apparatus interest the Gestapo. But whenever they reached the secret innards of the mountain, they knew they were safe from human interference. Little by little they explored the underground labyrinth. At last they discovered that if they enlarged a narrow passage between two tunnels, they could break the Italian depth record. Last week they...
...into hiding. The dominant thought of all of us hunted for political, racial, or both reasons, was to get out. Under the quota I would have to wait two years to get my U.S. immigration visa. Meanwhile, the problem was to keep alive and away from the Gestapo...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, a German Dominican named Father Leonard Roth quietly began to oppose him. Within two years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...