Word: gestapoes
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...Jewish relief organization after it was forced to disband. "They are innocents," he told his secretary. "We must help them at whatever cost to ourselves." And then there were the thousands of Italian Christians who out of uncommon decency defied authority by harboring Jews or warning them of impending Gestapo roundups...
...Mount Weather since 1968 is Bernard ("Bud") Gallagher. A former Air Force bomber pilot who was shot down over Denmark and held captive by Germany's dreaded Gestapo during World War II, Gallagher flew through the mushroom clouds of 12 nuclear tests in 1952 and 1953 to record radiation levels. He later went to the White House, serving in the Office of Emergency Preparedness. Now 69, Gallagher is described as a superpatriot and a student of such dire scenarios as the postattack consequences of nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. Says Becton: "He's a solid citizen...
...must use the right bridges of the period, he must enter the proper gates. On the streets he must meet the people of the time.... Sometimes this [research] was not a problem. For example, the Inquisition, which was repressive in the manner of Stalin's police or the Gestapo, was also very methodic. In their documents they recorded everything they did. They list every name and every accusation. I made use of such documents...
...shop. Long after Donovan's death in 1959, Hoover continued to tell people, falsely, that his old foe had succumbed to syphilis contracted from prostitutes during World War II orgies. Eleanor Roosevelt made Hoover's hate list for having accused him of trying to build an American gestapo. In revenge, the director spread rumors of her alleged love affairs with both men and women. Hoover persuaded comedian W.C. Fields to give him a set of obscene drawings of the President's wife, which he delighted in showing friends...
...rules and trespassing laws, after they ignored repeated warnings to leave the office and halted administrative activity for the day (and, by some accounts, actually shoved a secretary), our defiant sitters now stand up to accuse Clark of engineering a campaign of "intimidation." Here's some of what Mr. Gestapo said in his much decried letter of abominations...