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Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
Task Force D. Assistant Prosecutor Lieut. Harris Whitney, U.S.N., took up the case of scar-faced Ernst Kaltenbrunner, successor to bloody Hangman Reinhard Heydrich as the Gestapo's No. 2 man. Sample charges: ordering the murder of civilians in occupied countries, devising a system for selecting gas-chamber candidates, encouraging the lynching of Allied airmen...
Desired Results. From a string of other witnesses came stories implicating not merely the obvious organizations such as the Gestapo and SS, but also the then-aristocratic High Command. At one time the Army had ordered executions speeded up because of a food and housing shortage on the eastern front. The secret shooting of recaptured P.O.W.s had been given the professional military label of "operation bullet...
Tunnel of Fear. Little by little, top Nazi leaders learned to fear Martin Bormann. He had been made chief of the inner Gestapo that policed top Nazis. Reich Marshal Goring blocked up the tunnel that led from Bormann's Berchtesgaden house...
...Millar the name seemed almost as awful as the Gestapo. "Visions connected with this ghastly name flashed through my head. I saw stalwart foresters laying back their heads until the neck cords showed like bared intestines, but their voices came in a shallow unison pipe: 'Oh, Désiré.' I saw the German questioners in Gestapo headquarters. Their leader aid: 'We give you one last chance, Captain Er, Captain Um, Captain Désiré.' I aw a woman with gold teeth and dirty hair who came towards me asking...