Word: gestapoed
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...violence of their mood further unsettled Mollet's new regime. Mollet, though a mild-appearing ex-schoolmaster and party functionary, is a man of courage who escaped the Gestapo's hand in 1943. At the first reports of the angry murmurings against Catroux, Mollet announced steadfastly: "I will accompany General Catroux, and we will ride in the same car." Early this week, as the angry mutterings swelled, Catroux resigned. Mollet went off alone to Algiers, where he was greeted with a shower of rotten tomatoes as he laid a wreath at a monument to war dead...
...public prosecutor at Kiel, charging only that Clauberg had "caused severe bodily harm" to Jewish women at Auschwitz, backed his charge with sworn statements from more than 30 sterilized women who had survived Clauberg's experiments. He also cited a letter in which Clauberg boasted to Gestapo Chief Himmler that "my method of achieving sterilization of the female organs has been developed more or less completely ... it is accomplished by a single injection ... If the examinations which I have been carrying on continue to work out, the moment is not far away when I could probably sterilize several hundred...
Elsie remembers the night when eight armed men awakened her family, tore up her house, and terrorized her children. They took Henry to a concentration camp, and the Gestapo permitted him to leave the country only because his emigration papers had already been issued...
...months Elsie waited inside Germany, not knowing whether she would be able to get out. "Those were awful days," she recalls, "The Gestapo was always asking me why I wanted to go." In July of 1939, they finally allowed her to board a German vessel bound for New York. She arrived in the United States with four dollars and two children...
Divorced. By Peter M. Churchill, 46, top British secret agent in occupied France during World War II (no kin to Sir Winston): Odette (full name: Odette Marie Celine Brailly), 43, famed Frenchborn allied spy who was arrested with Churchill by the Gestapo in 1943; after eight years of marriage; in London. Odette saved the life of Churchill (her commanding officer) by convincing the Nazis that he was only her husband who had entered spying at her insistence. She was tortured and imprisoned for two years, escaped to the U.S. lines in 1945, rejoined Churchill London, where she later married...