Word: gestapoes
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During World War II, five students and their professor began distributing leaflets in protest of Hitler. After they were killed by the Gestapo in February 1943, the White Rose Foundation was created to honor their memory...
...exhibition catalogs. It comes up with some intensely interesting and little-known figures, such as Varian Fry, the Scarlet Pimpernel of cultural rescue, who after 1940 ran an emergency committee whose task, as he put it, was "to bring the political and intellectual refugees out of France before the Gestapo got them...I had no experience in refugee work, and none in underground work. But I accepted the assignment because...I believed in the importance of democratic solidarity...
...linked to the assassination attempt on Hitler. In July 1944 they had no other choice than to flee to Switzerland and seek refuge with relatives. Big surprise: the Swiss authorities accepted the four children in the family but turned back the five adults, who were caught, delivered to the Gestapo and imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other prisoners, were shot. You mentioned that 30,000 Jewish refugees were turned away at the Swiss border. An equal number of political refugees must have shared that fate...
Entering the Senate after a special election to fill the seat vacated by retiring Democrat David Boren, Inhofe now face's Boren's eccentric cousin. Inhofe himself is known for some verbal eccentricities, like denouncing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as "gestapo bureaucracies." With a strong conservative record, however, he plays well in this Bible Belt state...
This perspective--or indeed, any perspective--obviously escaped Kaufman. Instead of treating the Peninsula piece as the fluff that it was, he freely applied the most libelous epithets imaginable, calling Peninsula members fascistic, Gestapo-esque anti-Semites...