Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Fritsch was killed in Poland, probably shot in the back by the Gestapo, Brauchitsch made the funeral speech: "The unshakable loyalty with which this best soldier of the German Army served his unbreakable principles of honor, in good and in bad times, make him an example, the only example for every German soldier...
Outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller is still in Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Last year the Gestapo put him in a cell with two Catholic priests, hoping they could convert one another to formation of a German na tional church. That failed; now Niemöller is back in solitary confinement, well treated, given any books he wants to read...
...Bulgaria was slated for a bigger role. Hungarian sources reported that Premier Filoff had hurried to a Berchtesgaden session with Adolf Hitler; he may also have seen his old acquaintance, Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. No one doubted that he would get Gestapo support to suppress Bulgaria's underground, anti-German, patriotic front. What the Führer needed above all was more manpower, more help from Bulgaria's Army to guard against a possible Turkish thrust and to stiffen Italian garrisons in Greece...
Next morning, with Germany seething with rumors of unrest, there was still bigger news. All German home affairs were placed under Gestapo rule as Heinrich Himmler, dread head of the Nazi secret service, was named Minister of the Interior and "Chief of the Reich Administration...
MacMurray & Crawford are an American and his bride in prewar Germany, but not on anything so innocent as a honeymoon. In quest of a secret which Great Britain needs to know they get involved in disguises, a Liszt-accompanied murder, battles with the Gestapo. They also run afoul of such suspicious figures as Basil Rathbone and Conrad Veidt. Strangely enough, it all adds up to a better-than-average summertime melodrama...