Word: gestapoed
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...Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which is currently being re-released to convulsed audiences in Europe. Interspersed scenes such as Hitler doing a balloon dance with a globe are obvious ridicule, with very doubtful historic basis. But the story focuses on a sort of polar struggle between the gestapo and "the ghetto," which seems incredibly funny even to Europeans...
...marries her. But the regime that he and his countrymen have created will not leave him alone. His old professor (played with austere dignity by Author Remarque, in his film debut) lives in terror of the SS; a Jewish friend hides out miserably in a bombed-out cathedral; a Gestapo officer hands him a cigar box containing the ashes of his bride's father. Worst of all, the Allied air forces refuse to let bygones be bygones, systematically pound his pretty city to tatters...
...last artery of hope, the flow of smuggled goods from somewhere outside hell. The Thirteen hoped to buy time from the Nazis, and many a Jew hoped to buy time from the Thirteen. Corruption at the top was symbolized by a party given by one of the Thirteen for Gestapo officers; it cost 25,000 zlotys. At the dregs of the ghetto, corruption was symbolized by the episode of a famished woman who stole a bagel, still enjoying a morsel while the blows of the bagel seller fell upon...
Stalling Nogoodniks. San Francisco's Federal District Judge Edward Murphy thundered that Barber's treatment of Heikkila smacked of "the Gestapo, the thumbscrew and the rack." Bowing to Murphy's contempt-of-court threat and shocked public opinion, the Justice Department ordered Heikkila brought back to the U.S. By week's end, smiling happily, he was home in San Francisco again, reunited with his U.S.-born wife Phyllis. Scheduled for this week in Judge Murphy's court is a hearing to decide what happens next...
...circuit TV help spot the heisters, but eat up the labor savings of self-service merchandising. Nor is a shoplifter spotted necessarily a shoplifter stopped. Grocers run the risk of being sued for false arrest if they cannot find stolen merchandise. More unsettling is the danger of creating a Gestapo atmosphere in a store where impulse buying is basic to sales...