Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian tub Busko, first Nazi sea victim of U.S. naval might, trapped off Greenland by a U.S. patrol vessel, escorted into the harbor by the old 703-ton Coast Guard cutter Bear, once a Byrd Antarctic ship. Aboard the Busko were radio equipment, skis, dogsleds, two dogs, a Gestapo agent, 18 Norwegian sailors, a woman and a boy. What was the status of the captives? Were they prisoners of war or (since the U.S. is not in the war) prisoners of defense? Under what law could they be held in jail? The unembarrassed Justice Department, which knows a lot about...
...made until last week. No Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather. One of the stations was found and destroyed, its three-man crew captured...
...foreword to this book, says Fritz Thyssen, onetime rich and powerful head of the German steel trust, onetime National Socialist party member, onetime financial backer of Adolf Hitler, now probably a corpse or a haggard prisoner of the Gestapo. I Paid Hitler reveals Thyssen as one of history's rankest examples of The Man Who Was Wrong...
Another Niemöller has arisen in Germany-this time a Roman Catholic, Count Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Minister in Westphalia. In August he denounced Naziism three times from his pulpit so vigorously that according to news which percolated to the U.S. last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has urged Hitler to have him shot. To date he las not been touched, for his influence on the workers of Westphalia is so great, and the news of his resistance has grapevined so rapidly throughout the Reich, that the Mazis fear there would be a major work stoppage...
Wanted by both the Gestapo and Mussolini's agents, a Prato escaped a refugee roundup in France by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport. While being examined for the Gestapo list, the examining officer observed: "Why, you look just like this man a Prato." Said coolheaded a Prato: "Why, it is a remarkable resemblance...