Word: gestapoed
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...Honnef, outside Bonn, West Germany. One of Germany's military elite, Speidel became disgusted with Hitler's conduct of the war and joined the unsuccessful bomb plot to kill the Nazi dictator at Hitler's East Prussia headquarters. Remaining silent under interrogation, Speidel survived the subsequent Gestapo inquisition. When West Germany's army was finally rebuilt in the mid-1950s, he was called to help and became one of NATO's most respected commanders...
...ambiguous. On one hand, he says, Eppinger was a "cold, unapproachable man" who, throughout his career, was "ruthless as far as human life was concerned." On the other hand, Popper, who is Jewish, feels he owes his life to Eppinger, who warned him to flee just hours before the Gestapo came to arrest him. Popper says that in 1970 he informed his colleagues on the prize-selection committee that Eppinger was "morally objectionable" but, he says, "they didn't pursue the issue." Popper has nonetheless occasionally presented the awards...
...Mayer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and his adjutant Schulze (Ralf Wolter). These "good Germans" find it almost impossible to "follow orders." They debate Stani's skin color (pink or rose?) and attempt to match Stani's eyes to a set of 20 glass eyeballs thoughtfully provided by the Gestapo. Finally they declare him "in better than good health-You're an Aryan! You can become a German." When Stani declines the honor, they rule he must be hanged by a fellow Pole, who will receive three cigarettes as reward. Through all the meticulous absurdities of the Nazi bureaucracy...
...trust Louis' evidence to the contrary? I think not. He indicates that Israel is involved with South Africa's Bureau of State Security, a "Gestapo-like" organization. However, his only evidence is that, "In 1973, the head of South Africa's Bureau of State Security visited Israel." There is no mention of the nature of the visit: Louis also weaves a three-paragraph spy novel about Israeli involvement in a nuclear test explosion off the coast of South Africa. Similarly, his tone piece of evidence is that an Israeli nuclear scientist visited Israel on the day following the explosion. Once...
...pattern of cooperation develops, with the U.S. role growing ever more pronounced. In May 1971, Israel volunteered to replace three crashed South African warplanes. In 1973, the head of South Africa's Bureau of State Security (BOSS) visited Israel (9) BOSS is known internationally for what can only be Gestapo-like practices of spying on citizens, torture, imprisonment without trial, and outright murder of South African Blacks. It is among the most feared and hated secret police forces in the world...