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...said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...
...author of the best-selling Out of the Night, which he wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, hulking, gap-toothed Richard Krebs had shocked U.S. readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...
...that day the citizens of Toulon saw their sailors, proud and grim under the bayonets of their captors, being transported through the streets on their way to imprisonment. The Gestapo, which followed the troops in, had long lists of suspects. First to be arrested were all those who had survived the destruction in the harbor; later many civilians were taken in the Gestapo roundup...
...same trail of dead Nazis and sabot age which has been the subject of pictures since. Hitler invaded Austria, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...
Nomenology. In The Bronx, Alexander Himler, weary of cracks about the Hangman of the Gestapo, had his name legally changed to Alexander Hamilton. In Baltimore, the Rossa McGradys named their new son Alert because he was born during one. With the Georgia Department of Health was filed a birth certificate for Extra White...