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Word: gestapoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander Bower criticized Chief of Naval Staff Sir Dudley Pound for the conduct of the Narvik evacuation. Not content with sticking to military matters, such as the liaison, or lack of it, between the Navy and the R.A.F., the Commander talked about the Admiralty's "Gestapo methods" and said: "We are not fighting against Hitler in order to set up the First Lord of the Admiralty (A. V. Alexander) as a little pinchbeck Hitler with a tin-pot staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Right Bower | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Later Turkey canceled a concert, having heard that several of the musicians, including two violinists and a flutist, were Gestapo members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Night of Discord | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Hello," said the Devil. "We've been getting quite a few of you Gestapo men lately. I understand there will be more, too, before long. But you were supposed to be the toughest guy in Europe. Millions of people hated you. You were a big shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...sons of bitches here. Now just tell me what you did in Czecho-Slovakia." "Yes, your Satanic Majesty," said Heydrich, eagerly. He patted his trimly cut blond hair, moistened his lips and rubbed his hands. "You will be pleased at what I did. But, of course, my being named Gestapo Commissar General of all German Occupied Territory in May was only a promotion for what I had done before." The Devil pawed at the sulphurous earth with a cloven hoof. At last he said: "Go ahead then; start from the beginning." "Well, I killed my first man," Heydrich said, "when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Jones once dramatized Pastor Martin Niemoller's martyrdom at the hands of the Nazis. He had himself hauled out of his Brooklyn pulpit by a posse dressed up like Gestapo agents before the eyes of his startled Brooklyn congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War, Peace and the Church | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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