Word: gestapoed
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...busy, noisy street near the Gare du Nord -have had their blood pressure driven high by a series of poison-pen letters. The writer demanded money for keeping secrets most of the neighbors did not have. The charges, all phony, said such things as, "Your husband belonged to the Gestapo. If you don't bring me 50,000 francs I will denounce him to the police," or "I know who strangled your sweetheart. Send me 50,000 francs and I won't say anything." The letter writer invariably used pink stationery, was promptly nicknamed by the press...
...older than he looked. At the station house, Branquez's fingerprints were taken. Within two hours the French criminal police identified them as belonging to one Germain Lantier, a Frenchman who had deserted to the Germans in World War II, had risen to be a lieutenant in the Gestapo. Arrested at war's end, Lantier had escaped from a military hospital, been condemned to death in absentia as a traitor...
...church bells rang out to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the liberation of Paris, ex-Gestapo Agent Lantier, under military guard, was sent back to Lille to face justice...
...village's 175 men, sent its women to concentration camps, demolished its houses. The Czechs did not forget Lidice. At war's end, they tracked down the "Butcher of Lidice," Karl Herman Frank, former Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, hanged him with six of his Gestapo henchmen...
...shows no more mercy for his countrymen than he showed for the Haitians in 1937. There is no record of the number of Dominicans his bullyboys have shot and beaten to death, but exiles charge that the toll runs into thousands. Political prisoners who come back alive tell of Gestapo-model cells so constructed that the inmate can neither stand up nor lie down, of beatings with steel-wire whips...