Word: gestapoed
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...French citizenship rights were given 500 Gestapo agents to be sent to Vichyfrance...
Stefan Heym, 29, is editor of New York's anti-Nazi weekly Deutsches Volksecho. He fled the Gestapo in 1933. His father, seized as a hostage, later committed suicide. Author Heym's novel is dedicated to his father's memory...
...night of Thursday, Oct. 9, 1941, in Prague" (said a Nazi public notice) "Lieut. Erich Glasenapp [of the German] 431st Infantry Division was assassinated. . . . TWENTY HOSTAGES will be shot within a week, if the murderer or murderers are not apprehended." The notice was signed by Colonel Reinhardt, Gestapo Commissioner of conquered Prague...
Commissioner Reinhardt knew that Lieut. Glasenapp had committed suicide. But Reinhardt reported that Glasenapp had been murdered because among the Gestapo's hostages was a Nazi collaborationist, Lev Preissinger, coal king of Prague. After shooting Hostage Preissinger the Nazis could confiscate his mines and at the same time show troublesome Czech workers that Naziism does not respect rich capitalists...
Five of the Gestapo's hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author...