Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprisal is the first novel by the author of the Gestapo thriller, Escape, since the revelation that Novelist Ethel Vance is really Grace Zaring Stone cleared up the biggest U.S. literary mystery of the decade. For three years this mystery caused a stir in U.S. intellectual life equaled only by the agitation over the question: who should play Scarlett O'Hara in the movie version of Gone With the Wind? No doubt the publishers expect this furor will turn Reprisal into a bestseller. But Reprisal is no Escape. The book is a slow-moving study of French life under...
...America hundreds of thousands of aliens of German origin, whose loyalty to our cause is intense and unequivocal. Many of them have better reason to loathe the Nazis and their criminal accomplices than our most patriotic citizens can ever know. They have felt the lash of the Gestapo and the agonies of the concentration camp; they have been despoiled of loved ones, possessions, home, country and citizenship. These people are pledged by every sacred oath, by every claim of human decency and dignity, to a war to the death upon Hitler, Hirohito, and all they represent...
...statistics, Moscow radio this week estimated that after 37 months of war 20,000,000 European men and women are dead, wounded or missing. In Occupied Europe, exclusive of Russia, 5,700,000 persons have been driven by war from their homes; 930,000 have been tortured by the Gestapo; 1,790,000 have been imprisoned; 4,000,000 have been taken for forced labor into Germany and Poland...
Featuring films portraying life in war-torn countries of Europe and a film, the original of which was condemned and burned by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, the Film Society this year is planning the most ambitious program in its history...
Five of the Gestapo's hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author...