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...When Gestapo agents and German soldiers closed in on an apartment house in Athens, Major Jean Tsigantes, patriot, did not surrender. Armed only with a revolver, he killed three of the Germans and wounded two others while guarding a secret file of underground records. Last week in Cairo an order of the day was addressed to the personnel of the Greek Army in the Middle East. It said simply...
...setting is a peculiarly American Cafe American in Casablanca, before it became a meeting place for conferring diplomats. The traffic in human beings that serves as the backdrop of the story makes for interest per sc. But when it is combined with the Gestapo pursuit of a Czech underground leader, whose wife is enamoured, Continental style, with an American style, last-time-I-saw Paris lover, the plot, as the saying goes, thickens...
...bigger news. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only loreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back work that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him; fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital, strictly in spite of himself...
...bigger new. When the picture opens, Germany has just invaded Russia, and Hope is the only foreign correspondent who missed the scoop. He sent back word that it was all a nasty rumor. Amalgamated recalls him: fires him; and he spends the remaining reels exposing a nest of Gestapo agents in our nation's capital,--strictly in spite of himself...
They slept on the stone floor, ate rice and stringy meat, had to bow to Jap soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers slapped the Dutchmen in the face and stamped on their feet. The Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast...