Word: gestapoed
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...twelve months Karl Horak wandered over Europe, working his way westward. Always the Czech Government anxiously followed his trail, while the underground strained to keep him one step ahead of the Gestapo. Last week came news that the trail had faded out three months ago, somewhere in France. Whether the Gestapo finally caught up with Karl Horak, whether his memories proved too much for him, none knew...
...Etta Shiber, a former Manhattan housewife, whose chief excitement in life used to be attending concerts, was changed by Dunkirk into a conspirator. She was tracked around Paris, caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo, and finally handed over to the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, Nazi spy and hairdresser extraordinary on the S.S. Enropa. Author Shibers crime: helping to smuggle British soldiers out of Occupied France. Paris-Underground* a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for October, is Mrs. Shiber's exciting story of how she did it. The book is avowedly...
Through an official of the Gueules Cassees (literally the "Broken Mouths," an organization of facially disfigured World War I veterans), the two women got Gray off their hands, but not off their minds. They had outwitted the Gestapo, but there were some 10,000 British soldiers who had been left behind at Dunkirk and were living in the woods. Kitty decided to smuggle as many of them as possible back to Britain. Mrs. Shiber decided to help...
...women to do something which many a reader will doubt, but which Mrs. Shiber insists is literally true. They advertised in Paris-soir: "William Gray (formerly of Dunkirk) is looking for his friends and relatives. Address Cafe Moderne, Rue Rodier, Paris." There were three replies-one obviously from the Gestapo, one too hazardous to follow up, one from a priest who was sheltering four British soldiers, was in touch with hundreds more. In the next four months Kitty and Mrs. Shiber helped almost 200 British soldiers to get out of Occupied France...
Then one morning in late November 1940, while Kitty was away, the Gestapo knocked at the door, carried Mrs. Shiber off to jail. Later the Nazis bagged Kitty and the priest. Mrs. Shiber was sentenced to three years at hard labor. Kitty and the priest were sentenced to death. But Mrs. Shiber believes that Kitty has not been executed, is in prison in Germany. The priest, according to Mrs. Shiber, was snatched from prison the day before his execution by two British Intelligence officers dressed in Nazi uniforms...