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...hand, hovered on the horizon of Yugoslavia-Canada relations. Tito has notified Ottawa that one Radan Radican Grujicic is a refugee in Canada and should be sent back to his homeland to stand trial for 1,000 political murders. Grujicic, according to Belgrade, was chief of Hitler's Gestapo in Serbia. In 1948 he entered Canada as a D.P. Until recently Grujicic lived in a Toronto rooming house; his present whereabouts are unknown, except perhaps to the R.C.M.P...
Father Jammes of France, who was once a prisoner of the Gestapo and in 1943 was the youngest priest in the world, commented on the spiritual resolution of his country...
Under the Nazis and their perpetual Communist manhunt, Wollweber actually thrived. One of the few party leaders who neither fled into exile nor fell into the Gestapo's hands, he installed the Communist cadres underground and kept them operating. Often the Gestapo breathed down his thick bull neck. Once a gang of Danish Nazis working for the Gestapo kidnaped him off the streets of Copenhagen, but the Danish police intervened and set him free...
Wollweber graduated in the '30s to chief of the Comintern's western operations. Out of Copenhagen (where he operated from the same office building used by the Gestapo) he spun a web of sabotage. During the Spanish Civil War, his men concentrated on ships carrying supplies to Franco, sabotaged 21 German, Italian and Spanish ships. During World War II, his apparatus turned to Nazi installations in Norway and to materials that the Swedes were selling to the Germans. Under German pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually...
Pleaded Falkenhausen: "During my interrogations by the Gestapo I was reproached with having been too mild in Belgium; I was supposed to have arrested too few and released them too soon." He admitted that under his regime there were arrests, shootings, deportations. "A German general, like any soldier, must obey his chiefs." But, he said, "I employed every means to frustrate, modify or alleviate the orders and instructions which opposed my views. Obviously, I could frustrate them completely [only] in a few cases. But I always tried to do the best I could under the circumstances ... St. Augustine has written...