Word: gestapoed
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...Thomas could not precisely say that he had been a relatively safe civilian. He had, in fact, been far from safe in Buchenwald a good bit of the time, and before that he had been known to the Gestapo, under the alias of Shelley, as one of the most dangerous British agents in Europe, a kingpin in the intricate machinery of French resistance...
...another French military court last week, seven of 21 accused were also being tried in absentia, and for the same reason: the French had not been able to lay hands on them. One by one, in quiet, choked, or angry voices, 187 witnesses had told their stories of the Gestapo torture chamber in the Rue de la Pompe in Paris (TIME, Dec.1). When Witness Jacques Benoist tearfully began shouting. Judge Robert Chadefaux cautioned: "You promised to testify without hate. Try to be calm." Retorted Benoist: "It is hard, Monsieur le President, after eight years, to remember these things...
Willy, a nimble-fingered radio mechanic in the Ruhr town of Neuss, had dreamed since he was twelve of inventing a new flying machine. By wartime he had worked out plans for a parachute which would operate on the helicopter principle. The Gestapo interrupted these labors, carting Willy off to a forced-labor camp because he was a conscientious objector. But in searching his house afterwards, they discovered and were fascinated by Willy's plans. With magnificent artfulness, they conceived a simple test of Willy's device: they strapped Willy's parachute on his own back, took...
...Senators who voted state powers to Petain in 1940. Pinay had not joined the Resistance; it offended his conservative sense of law & order. But villagers have since related that as mayor during the occupation, he hid Jews and issued false papers to Frenchmen hunted by the Gestapo. Shortly he was back in the Assembly, and within two years was mayor again...
...expected from Actress Bankhead; at year's end it was at the top of the bestseller list. The other, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, was the deeply moving journal of a teen-age Jewish girl in hiding from the Gestapo (she died later in a concentration camp...