Word: gestapoed
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...Joliot, who in 1935 shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry with his wife, Irene Curie, had his Nazi troubles. His laboratories at Paris and Ivry were seized and in June, 1941 he had a twelve-hour ordeal with the Gestapo. He came through well enough to get back not only his laboratories but also the only French-owned cyclotron and a precious stock of radium.* Says he: "It wasn't funny. But after I had convinced them that I was all right, I was able to get back to work seriously...
...pretender, but a newly-minted Regent of Belgium was Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, younger brother of captive King Leopold. For three months before the liberation, the Gestapo hunted high & low for Prince Charles. They could have found him, fighting with the Belgian Maquis in the High Ardennes. When he turned up at the Royal Palace in Brussels last week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then...
...behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch slave labor gangs barricaded themselves in their barracks, sang their national anthems. The SS apparently lacked the men to stop them. Elsewhere foreign workers were stepping up sabotage by slowing down production...
...Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...French Gestapo Boss Pierre Bony was caught by patriots. He was disguised as a hobo. With him was his aide, Henry La Font, disguised as a hired farm hand...