Word: gestapoed
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...jacket in "a lost corner of Nepal." When she deemed the time had come for "passionate love" to give place to "more lasting sentiments," she quietly but frankly informed him of the fact. Goudeket never saw her in the morning before she had done her face, and when the Gestapo came to their Paris flat in 1941 to take him away (he was a Jew), she merely tapped him lightly on the shoulder and said briskly: "Off you go." Goudeket returned from Compiegne detention camp and soon again was "absolutely fit": it was the iron-masked Colette who "suffered more...
...charge of the lay organization Serov put a bumptious, indestructible gangster named Boleslaw Piasecki. Piasecki had worked as an agent for Mussolini, later for the Gestapo; when he was picked up by the NKVD, he eagerly ratted on his associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar...
Claude Rains, as the wary French Prefect of Police, a "poor, corrupt official" who must work with the Gestapo, cannot decide whether French or German grass is greener, and so sits between on a sharp picket fence. As Victor Laslo, Paul Henreid plays a leader of various resistance movements who has eluded the Germans once too often; his acting shows what a man tortured in a concentration camp must endure...
...member of the Resistance, Sautier. Later this man betrays the Resistance and LeGuen is ordered to kill him, which he does with pleasure if not comprehension. Long afterwards, as LeGuen awaits execution for the continuence of these indulgences in times of peace, a former member of the Gestapo is accused of Sautier's murder. LeGuen, who had never been caught, is convinced to confess to this murder, too, so that he can get another trial. To preserve her husband's memory, however, Sautier's wife insists that the Gestapo killed him. Although she is too compassionate to accuse the German...
...medical aide, seriously wounded and taken prisoner (in German prison he completed writing a textbook on English Grammar and pronunciation), later was returned to Arras in prisoner exchange. Joined resistance, worked for four years in network called Libre-Nord under nom de guerre Laboule; three times arrested by Gestapo who failed to break him, last time released when condemned friend (executed next day) refused to identify him as-Laboule...