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...July morning in 1943, Yvonne, Comtesse de La Rochefoucauld, 41, and her handsome ex-cavalry-officer husband met for the last time outside the Cercle des Officiers in Paris. They pretended not to know each other. The Gestapo had arrested all but one of the British officers who belonged to the countess' intelligence group. London had ordered her immediate return to England. The count whispered: "I must embrace you once before you go." "We are in public," Yvonne said. "It is forbidden." Before she walked on, Bernard had just time to reassure her that the family jewels had been...
That night the Gestapo arrested Comte Bernard de La Rochefoucauld, descendant of François Due de La Rochefoucauld, Cardinal de Richelieu's great rival. Next morning the Germans picked up Yvonne before she could escape to England...
...prison camp they are painfully disappointed. The older prisoners, Afrika Korps veterans, scorn the Cassino captives as traitors and. cowards. A shadow Gestapo, working under the inexperienced eyes of the U.S. guards, rules the prisoners through terror. When the anti-Nazis appeal for protection...
...Power. Among the political prisoners in the Gestapo jail, says Lilje, the Christian faith flourished as never before. "The longer our imprisonment lasted, the more evident it became that there was another power amongst us. It was much stronger than that of the common political-resistance: that power was the Christian Faith. It was significant to see how one after another realized this fact; once it was admitted, our sense of its power increased...
...Jesuit priest managed to grant absolutions and perform clandestine Mass each day for Roman Catholic prisoners. Lilje and other Protestant pastors wrote meditations and commentaries to be passed around. Among the most heroic were the Jehovah's Wit nesses. Owing to their "absolute love of truth, the Gestapo were glad to use these men in various prisons as informers, for in their love of truth they always went so far that they disregarded all ties of comradeship ... In spite of this, we owe them that respect which we would give to the fanatics at the period of the Reformation...