Word: gestapoed
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...strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from portraying them all as violent, drooling, bully-boys. There is an ingeniously written part of a Gestapo officer that ranks as one of the best minor parts Hollywood has turned out in a long time...
...these measures of job control exist in Great Britain, where they were adopted not only by democratic consent, but even as a result of democratic insistence. As such they in no way resemble the forced labor of the Gestapo and the concentration camp. Similar methods can be used in this country. Once convinced of the necessity, the workers themselves will and should sanction the total mobilization of labor, and must be given a large share in putting it into effect. It is up to us to prove that we can do the job and still remain a free people...
Author Seghers' book is a new kind of novel about the Gestapo and its victims. Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male and Ethel Vance's Escape were dramatic stories of flight from the Gestapo. As a story, The Seventh Cross is just as good-and a lot more. The desperate lunges of its hunted fugitive hero against the constricting circle of Nazi pursuit generate the same kind of breathless fascination with which people watch a rabbit trying to escape the coils of a snake...
...true. He who had worn black for anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...
...headquarters at Sedan lie right where they should lie, roughly halfway between the extremities of his danger zone. They are far enough from German headquarters in Paris to be out of the way of the Gestapo and the politicians (whom he despises, as do most of his class). They are close enough for an easy trip to the periodic conferences he must have with the people he despises, but who are part of the Nazi machinery that must keep the conquered peoples down...