Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 64, polo-playing former president of the Kreditanstalt, one-year Gestapo prisoner after Hitler's Anschluss; and Countess Hilda Auersperg, 44, onetime Austrian who became an American citizen; he for the first time, she for the third; in Locust Valley...
German-born Richard Julius Hermann Krebs ("Jan Valtin") has been under fire again-this time real fire. In 1941, after publication of his autobiographical Out of the Night, U.S. leftists damned him as a former Gestapo agent (he said he had joined to bore from within) and a tattletale Communist who had owned to some strange deeds before his apostasy. Plain citizens began to wonder whether he was a fraud, a martyr or a marvel...
...doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which becomes the wave of the future. Already sheltering a million Germans and Italians within her borders, including several ex-leaders of the SS and Gestapo, Argentina is preparing under Peralta's direction to admit only the "technically superior people of the world" of "the best racial types." What Peralta deems "technically superior people" is demonstrated in his relevation that the men of Anders' army will be allowed to bring along their equipment, "including tanks, which...
...young German actress (Max Reinhardt started her at 14), Hilda first learned about destiny, did a good deal to shape her own. She played before Hitler and Göring. In London she met Anthony Eden, and this brought the Gestapo around. She told them what she has since told other snoopers: "I do not make politic." In St. Moritz for the skiing, Hilda was introduced to U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He helped her get a visa...
...prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part of the plan fitted into every other. . . . The armament industries were fed by the concentration camps. The concentration camps were fed by the Gestapo. The Gestapo was fed by the spy system. . . . Planning a war . . . involves the manipulation of public opinion . . . industry and finance...