Word: gestapoed
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...zoologist, an Austrian antiNazi who served as a British agent in World War II. The zoologist lives as a contented, fortyish bachelor in a London suburb, but unfortunately for his bucolic peace of mind, he has spent some time in Buchenwald as a British spy successfully masquerading as a Gestapo captain. Naturally, the vengeful killer does not know this, knows only that he has a score to wipe out with a Nazi. If the characters seem led rather than driven, the details of the man hunt are always in sure hands, and it is plain that after all these years...
...slow-motion suicide, the man charged with responsibility for the murder of 6,000,000 Jews was eager to tell all, often asked for pencil and paper to enlarge his replies. With evident satisfaction, Israel's Chief Investigator Abraham Selinger reported that the thin, flop-eared ex-Gestapo leader-who had proclaimed that he would kill himself if he were ever captured-was the most "cooperative" suspect he had ever interrogated...
Eichmann was born 54 years ago in the Ruhr, studied engineering in Austria, was an early Nazi adherent. As chief of the Gestapo's Jewish Section, he drew up the lists of names, marshaled the freight cars that carried the victims to the camps, perfected the methods of slaughter-finally settling on "Zyklon B" as the gas that was fastest and cheapest. Jews indelibly remember Eichmann's cynical offer in 1944 to trade 1,000.000 Jews for 10,000 trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from...
...knew that war was approaching and that, since he could not in conscience bear arms, he would surely be arrested if he went home to Germany. Still, he felt he must return. Back in Germany, Bonhoeler took an active part in the anti-Nazi underground. The Gestapo caught up with him on April 5, 1943. He spent two years in prisons and concentration camps before he was hanged, at 39, at Flossenburg in Bavaria, for plotting to kill Hitler...
Died. Dr. Felix Kersten, 61, Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler's personal physician ( "my magic Buddha"), who used his influence over his patient to save 3,000,000 Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives...