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...reckoning came in March 1933. By that time, the Socialists were meeting clandestinely.; those in danger of arrest were told to find sanctuary in Prague. Schumacher would not go. Four months later, in a hideaway in Berlin, he heard the expected knock on the door. The Gestapo took him to the Heuberg concentration camp near Stuttgart. Schumacher coolly calculated thaO he would be in jail eleven years (he reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration camps, most of them at Dachau...
...Inquiry took about an hour. Patrolman William Storey, responsible for many of the arrests, then took the stand for the state and gave his account. The men he nabbed, he said, were shouting "down with the Police," and "What is this, the Gestapo?" He could not, however, identify any of those he had except for Frederick Gooding, Jr. '54, who had a camera slung over his shoulder. He also swore that he did not have a club, nor did any of the officers with...
When the Nazis overran the Low Countries in 1940, they barred Dutch Physician Elie A. Cohen from practice. Cohen and his family tried to escape to Sweden, but the Gestapo caught them and sent them to Auschwitz. There, the SS gassed Cohen's wife and four-year-old son, his parents, his only sister, and about 50 other relatives. Much of the time Cohen had to do the same manual labor as other prisoners; only part of his three years, in a series of concentration camps was spent working as a doctor. Liberated in May, 1945, he weighed...
Twenty years ago he was the secretary of a Lower Austrian farm party, and made it into a center of anti-Nazi activity. The day after Anschluss, the Gestapo arrested Figl, threw him into Dachau. Ha was released during the war, but resumed politicking, was rearrested and was on trial for his life the day the Red army came...
...press. Neègre was a star Balkan correspondent for the French agency, Havas, oldest newsgathering agency in the world, when the invading Germans suppressed it in 1940. In Rumania, Negre promptly organized an underground French information service to smuggle news to the allies, was trapped by the Gestapo and imprisoned. Released in an exchange of prisoners, he feigned loyalty to the Vichy government and worked for its information service while passing intelligence to the Free French in London and Algiers. He was caught again, tortured, and sent to Buchenwald, where U.S. troops liberated...