Word: gestapoes
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...worst thing anyone could say (but none could prove) about Hardy was that he might have weakened under the thing the whole Resistance had dreaded: torture by the Gestapo. The Communists could add: he had been a member of the Resistance's right wing. On the former charge, but for the latter reason, the Communists now demanded Hardy's head...
...Communists see this, and that is why they malign the movement. ... I asked whether Buchman hadn't endorsed Hitler. Howard admitted that he once, naively, had endorsed the German Führer. But he emphasized M.R.A.'s record during the resistance and told me of a secret Gestapo document, 126 pages long, which condemns M.R.A. as being 'a Christian garment to world democratic aims...
...seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night in 1938. The pretty, young French girl holding her four-month-old son was Mrs. Edith Augustine Delaby Waterbury, going to join her ex-G.I. husband, Charles E. Waterbury of Newark...
...days before Dday, Violetta Szabo made her fourth parachute jump. The Germans spotted her. She fought them off with a Sten gun, but was captured by the Gestapo, tortured, killed...
...measure of solitude was in prospect for French Historian Bernard Faÿ (The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America; George Washington: Republican Aristocrat), onetime lecturer in U.S. universities. For compiling a giant list of French Freemasons which the Gestapo used as a directory for arrests and executions, Scholar Faÿ was sentenced in Paris to life imprisonment at hard labor...