Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway and Yugoslavia, on the rim of the New Order, were the best-organized centers of resistance. Twenty thousand Chetniks (Serb revolutionaries) held the hills of their country, blew up strategic railways. In Norway mass arrests continued all week. Each dawn Gestapo trucks routed out sleepy citizens, took them to prisons already full to bursting. Courtrooms and reform schools were commandeered for the overflow...
...Sebold got a job in a turbine factory, tried to settle down. When he got a letter from a Dr. Gassner (Heil Hitler!) asking him to dinner "to talk over old times" he laughed. Friends told him it was no laughing matter, urged him to take the letter to Gestapo headquarters. He did so, found the Gestapo cool, suspicious. Presently another letter came, threatening him unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent...
Department-store-keepers have another edge over most businessmen: they need not fret about prices. As everyone knows-including Leon Henderson-it would be virtually impossible to enforce retail price ceilings in the stores without a Gestapo (or even with one). Consumers thus far have ignored all price increases. Storekeepers' only real worry is inventories. By next spring their shelves will probably be bare of certain types of durable goods, and there will be no way to replace them...
...bird he was after was not Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, but one Gottfried Sandstede, who was officially listed as head of the Embassy's press office. Investigator Damonte had good reason to suspect that he was head of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo in Argentina, that the Ambassador himself took orders from Gottfried Sandstede. His name was on a list of 36 Germans wanted for questioning, but Gottfried Sandstede claimed diplomatic immunity...
Last week the Argentine Foreign Ministry's legal adviser decided that Gestapo-man Sandstede was not entitled to diplomatic immunity. Reason: he was also employed by a Buenos Aires shipping company. This decision was prematurely published by La NaciÓn and Gottfried Sandstede went into a sweat...