Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly the Gestapo clapped a price of 1,000,000 marks on the head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving...
Hitler had been forewarned at Berchtesgaden by the Gestapo, had sent his double, Heinrich Bergner, into the big map room, where a dozen generals and their adjutants were waiting for afternoon conference. Von Stauffenberg mistook Bergner for Hitler. In the same motion with which he gave the Nazi salute, he tossed a hand grenade. There were flames and an explosion. Bergner fell dead...
...south Bavarian concentration camp the Gestapo had shot a thousand German officers...
...After Ribbentrop had finished with the Finns, he called a meeting of Germans in authoritative posts in Helsinki. Present were the Minister to Finland, Wipert von Blücher, the Gestapo chief and several other responsible officials. The grave-faced, pouch-eyed ex-champagne salesman spoke for an hour on Germany's international situation. She had lost the war, but could and would win the peace, he said...
...walked into the press room of the Hotel Torni the afternoon of our break with Finland. A taciturn, potbellied, elderly German 'journalist,' Friedrich Borchman, vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Association, was playing chess. Borchman's main job is watching other German journalists for the Gestapo...