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...described only as brutal. And stark hunger stares 70% of Poland's population in the face as their reserves of foodstuffs and tools are shipped to Germany. . . ." >"No Pole may leave his home between 7 :30 p. m. and 6 a. m. During these hours the Gestapo sweeps down without warning on the unfortunate people. . .. The population do not sleep and spend the night dressed because the time limit allowed was recently curtailed and those not ready must leave with the clothes they wear. Individual groups are herded in the streets, covered by Gestapo guns, and wait...
...November evening two British agents were jerked to Germany by the Gestapo, which caught them just inside the Dutch border. They were Captain Richard Henry Stevens, chief of the British passport office at The Hague and alleged head of the British Intelligence Service on the Continent, and Sigismund Payne Best, socially prominent Hague representative of various foreign firms. Nazi sources let it be understood that these two gentlemen were suspected of interest if not complicity in the Munich Bürgerbräu Keller attempt on Adolf Hitler; that, held in Berlin, Captain Stevens was "confessing" volubly to sabotage activities...
Last week the British press, constantly grasping at peace straws, again rumored that German overtures may soon be made via Italy to the Allies. There was no confirmation of this in Rome, where II Duce received last week Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. Herr Himmler was said to have received from Premier Mussolini a "personal message" for Chancellor Hitler, but the Gestapo chief busied himself mainly about technical aspects of the option now being exercised by inhabitants of the Italian Tyrol of choosing on or before Dec. 31 whether to remain Italian subjects or be transported free to Germany...
...Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess last week set the seal of qualified official approval on bastardy. Herr Himmler sounded off in an "order to the entire SS (Elite Guard) and the police...
Then the rosy picture began to fade. The State began to interfere more & more with Big Business, to bear down on profits and increase taxes. Two years ago the Ruhr industrialist complained of being followed, of having his telephone tapped and his mail opened by the Gestapo. A long trip to South America followed, after which matters were patched up for a time. But no one could have been more dismayed or surprised by the Nazi-Communist Pact than Fritz Thyssen, die-hard hater of Socialism. Last summer Herr Thyssen warned the Nazis against going to war. A few weeks...