Word: gestapoed
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...comparing a letter written by F.F.I. Captain Valery with samples of Dr. Petiot's handwriting. Dr. Petiot said that his 50-odd victims were collaborators and Germans whom he had murdered for the sake of France. But the police said they were Frenchmen murdered for the Gestapo...
Next before the bar was Boris Theodos-sienko, a White Russian refugee. He had been a petty stool pigeon for the Gestapo, had circulated through the boites, reported whatever anti-German talk his eager ear could catch. For him, seven years at hard labor, confiscation of property...
...Paul Eluard, tall, elegant Surrealist poet turned Communist, emerged as the principal literary figure of French resistance. Hunted by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre, he finally hid in an insane asylum where psychoanalysts and nurses secretly tended Maquis wounded...
...idea of basing a Free Germany on captured German officers and soldiers has been credited to Communist Author Erich Weinert, a bushy-maned Berliner who fought with the International Brigade in Spain, fled from the Gestapo to Russia. He is said to have written a memo to Stalin, who approved...
...Wehrmacht continued World War II by other means is the theme of this novel by Austrian-born Erwin Lessner. Author Lessner, 46, is an anti-Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction...