Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camps; one was beheaded, in 1942. A few of us got away. One turned Nazi. I stuck it out for about four months. One day, on the way home, I was stopped by a friend who gave me a toothbrush and a ticket to Vienna, telling me that the Gestapo was in my apartment and just to beat it. The next day I was in Vienna...
...corporal in the French army, spent 36 months in German P.W. camps. Twice he escaped and was recaptured. The third try worked. He went underground in Paris, emerged to photograph the liberation of fellow French prisoners by the Allies. Some of the results-such as his picture of a Gestapo informer being recognized by an ecstatically vengeful ex-prisoner at a D.P. interrogation center (see cut)-were masterpieces of tragic force...
...worst thing anyone could say (but none could prove) about Hardy was that he might have weakened under the thing the whole Resistance had dreaded: torture by the Gestapo. The Communists could add: he had been a member of the Resistance's right wing. On the former charge, but for the latter reason, the Communists now demanded Hardy's head...
...hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings (at Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyons, on June 21, 1943) that Max met René Hardy. That meeting was raided by the Gestapo, and all the men there were arrested. Now René Hardy was accused of tipping off the Gestapo that...
...prosecution claimed that, for two weeks preceding the fatal gathering, Hardy had been in the hands of the Gestapo and had, after torture, betrayed the impending meeting. The defense countered with witnesses from the Resistance who claimed to have seen Hardy going about his anti-German work in the south of France while he was allegedly in Gestapo custody...