Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belatedly the secret services decided that Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domville, 62, onetime chief of Naval Intelligence and, since his retirement in 1936, an ardent Naziphile, guest in Germany of Hitler, Göring and Gestapo Chief Himmler, head of The Link (British pro-Nazi cell), was a dangerous character. They found and arrested him at his home in Roehampton, jailed also his half-German wife and their son, Compton...
Gauleiter Prospects. Meanwhile 40,000,000 Frenchmen locked in Hitler's embrace might, for all the rest of the earth knew of their feelings and their fate, have been swept off the civilized world. The Gestapo doubtless had thousands of them in concentration camps. Mystery surrounded France's democratic leaders. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was suffering at an unrevealed hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from...
...arrival in France of 55 Leader Heinrich Himmler and his dreaded Gestapo agents behind Adolf Hitler's armed legions set thousands of Europe's wearied refugees and exiles on the march once again. Long the traditional sanctuary of the hunted, defeated and homeless, France had suddenly become a huge trap for hordes of domestic and foreign anti-Nazis...
Crowded aboard a little Indian tramp ship built to carry 180, nearly 1,500 refugees from Bordeaux landed safely in England, among them the Baron & Baroness Robert de Rothschild and French Dramatist Henry Bernstein, fleeing Nazi anti-Semitic terrors. Fear of Gestapo black lists brought aboard the same vessel two onetime Government officials: onetime Belgian Transport Minister Marcel-Henri Jaspar and onetime French Air Minister...
...Federation of Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...