Word: gestapoed
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...since they intervened, the British have handled the situation rather as the MVD or Gestapo might have. The Army has raided the homes of ousted officials and their friends, searching for incriminating documents. And although Cheddi Jagan, ex-prime minister, and his fellow ministers were fired for what amounts to treason, there have been no official charges against them. So, England has dissolved the legally elected Guianan government without formally accusing it of more than possessing an aura of Communism...
Little Boy Lost, based on Marghanita Laski's bestselling novel, is about a U.S. war correspondent who is forced by the German advance to flee through Dunkirk, leaving his wife and newborn son in Paris. The wife is tortured and killed by the Gestapo. When peace comes, the correspondent goes back to look for his son. At an orphanage near Paris, he finds a French boy, about seven years old, who may or may not be his son. The picture tells the story of the father's outward attempts to determine whether...
...vieux blindé (an old tank officer). In the late '30s he became chief of the German Section of the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence), and by war's beginning he was well known as a good intelligence officer. When the Nazis entered Paris in 1940, the Gestapo made a beeline for his apartment, but their bird had flown, joined up with the headquarters of the army in the retreat to the south...
...hairbreadth escapes. Once, when he had a rendezvous with an agent in Paris' gloomy old Gare St. Lazare, the man failed to appear. He had been seized by the Germans, and they had squeezed out of him the word of the appointment with Navarre. There were six Gestapo men in the station looking for the spymaster. But Navarre, scenting the new wind, coolly joined a long line of ticket buyers, stood on a crowded platform reading a newspaper, then joined a crowd leaving a train, and got out of the station, scot-free. Once he was saved from capture...
...next twelve years Adenauer was a virtual prisoner in his home at Rhöndorf. "I became a very good gardener," he says. Twice the Gestapo arrested him, but he was treated as an Ehrenschutzhäftling (honorary prisoner) and released unharmed. But Adenauer heard and saw enough of Gestapo brutality to feel bitterly ashamed of his countrymen...