Word: gestapoes
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...labor leader and the first Jerry Wurf Fellow at the Kennedy School, told a hushed audience about his youth in Nazi Germany. With a heavy German accent, he said he never agreed with the Nazi ideology and came to bitterly hate it when his mother was tortured by the Gestapo...
...told my mother 'I am going to run away from the German army as soon as I can, or else I'm going to take my guns, go into the Gestapo basement, and shoot anyone I can find,'" he said...
...clubbing with nightsticks. The answering, taunting obscenities and rage, and after that the McLuhan-wise chorus from those being clubbed: "The whole world is watching!" Then, through the death stench of the Chicago stockyards, inside the Democratic Convention, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff on the podium denouncing the "gestapo tactics" of the police, and down on the floor, in the Illinois delegation, Mayor Richard Daley, face contorted, screaming at Ribicoff. TV's nation of lip-readers & thought they saw Daley emit the words: "F--- you, you Jew son of a bitch . . . Go home!" Daley later said he never used language like...
Throughout his eight-week trial on charges of crimes against humanity, Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo commander of Lyons during World War II, showed no sign of remorse and no great interest in defending himself. Except for three days at the beginning of the proceedings and two forced appearances in order to be identified by witnesses, Barbie exercised his right under French law to boycott the courtroom. The ailing Barbie, 73, seemed almost indifferent to the outcome of the trial. Instead of facing his accusers, he remained in his three-cell complex in St. Joseph prison...
Barbie's flamboyant French lawyer took just one day to interview six witnesses, including a former French collaborator who implied that the former Lyons Gestapo chief was just following orders when he killed and deported hundreds of Jews and members of the Resistance. Attempts to resurrect French atrocities in Algeria were shrugged off as irrelevant by the court's presiding judge. Prosecutors will now begin their summations...