Word: gestapoed
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...Ludendorff, Goebbels, Himmler, and above all Rudolf Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage," and on which he wrote a 40,000-word thesis which...
Last week the newscasters put the matter up to their home offices. Excluded from visits to battle fronts, forbidden to quote directly from German newspapers, forbidden to so much as mention the current anti-Semitic drive or Gestapo rule in Czecho-Slovakia, they were further annoyed by Nazi blue pencilers who tried to add to their copy as well as slash...
Totalitarianism is already here. . . . Hitler and Goebbels never went further." Editor Morrison well knew this last statement was not true. The same day the LaGuardia request became public, word leaked out of Germany that the Gestapo had jailed the dean of Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral for "offering prayers for Jews." By way of contrast, the Mayor pointed out that nobody had to use his sermon, and sundry clergymen rallied to his support...
...state that he had really meant "the general period of 1935-36." Shortly he was sent to Manchukuo with the Kwantung Army, where he redeemed himself by becoming the Man Friday of that Army's blustering leaders, Generals Juzo Nishio and Seishiro Itagaki. For them he ran a Gestapo, checking up on the Army's loyalties. He was said to have agents scattered from the remote frontiers to Mukden's hotels. His red brick headquarters bulged with dossiers on every Kwantung officer and he was known as Manchukuo's "bogey man." In 1937, when General Itagaki...
...Gestapo itself was on trial. So far it had failed to finish the job. but it still had hope...