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...After Ribbentrop had finished with the Finns, he called a meeting of Germans in authoritative posts in Helsinki. Present were the Minister to Finland, Wipert von Blücher, the Gestapo chief and several other responsible officials. The grave-faced, pouch-eyed ex-champagne salesman spoke for an hour on Germany's international situation. She had lost the war, but could and would win the peace, he said...
After a week or so, the tyrant yielded slightly and fired his strongest supporter, General David H. Ordoñez, head of his Gestapo. The people were not appeased: they were after Ubico himself. At last, after twelve days, he handed his resignation to Congress, begged that his person and wealth be spared, set out for the frontier...
Royal Progressive. The King was a believer in progress. He even let his wives leave the harem occasionally to go to a cremation. Twice a week, at midnight, the King held a secret council of the San Luang, the Royal Inquisition. This nocturnal Gestapo kept spies in all influential households, kidnapped subjects. It was dreaded. Its members communicated with each other by a stealthy, warning tapping...
...shocked, silent House of Commons last week heard more about the Gestapo execution of 50 Allied air officers who had escaped from a German prison camp (TIME...
...repatriated officer said that the 50 executed men were among 76 who escaped from Stalag Luft III, a huge camp about 100 miles from Berlin. The recaptured airmen were manacled, taken to a jail at Gorlitz. Gestapo agents told them: "Nobody knows you are here. You can disappear." All were killed...