Word: gestapoed
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...Talk might have touched on any number of important subjects: the coming offensives, war weariness in the Axis, U.S. war effort, food and labor shortages, materiel problems, sabotage and guerrilla resistance. But outside Castle Fuschl most people knew that Hitler, who runs Italy through the Gestapo, has little need to burden the sagging mind of Mussolini for very long with such weighty matters. Hence the world outside Castle Fuschl wondered whether there was any special reason for The Big Talk other than its theatrical value...
Perhaps Hitler and Mussolini worried a bit about rumors that dissatisfied groups inside Italy were plotting a separate peace offer to the United Nations behind their backs. Soon after The Big Talk "a certain number" of additional Gestapo agents went to Italy for the ludicrous, announced purpose of "studying the organization of the Italian police." But Italy undoubtedly keeps the Gestapo busy, whether separate peace plotters are active...
...year-old) climbed up again, wove some more, later let himself down again all 60 feet to the moat. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he spent eleven days on obscure roads and railroads leading to Switzerland, Occupied France and Vichy. His closest call came when the Gestapo searched a train on which he was talking with a German officer. He got the German into such a hot argument that the Gestapo did not wish to interrupt the officer with inquiries...
Perhaps unconsciously, the travesty of "To Be Or Not To Be" is double-edged, poking fun at Hollywood itself. For, while taking over the externals of the immemorial horse-opera, the director substitutes rough burlesque for melodrama, Keystone cops for Gestapo villains. No expose of the stock movie-formula could be more complete; no ridicule more richly deserved...
...Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new high executioner, Prince Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont, 45, whose early enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...