Word: gestapoes
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...much too cynical. There are some elements of imperial Britain in his attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide and realistic understanding of how the world works: each book is rich in historical detail, psychological insight, and another added...
...forces to 500,000, composed of highly trained professionals, capable of servicing our sophisticated weapons of national defense (this would give us all the international security possible through military means alone); (3) propose the abolition of the CIA as it now exists--a monster as evil as Hitler's Gestapo and far more dangerous--and substitute therefore a small highly trained intelligence group of experts for the analysis of the reports of U.S. government regular agencies, such as the State Department, Army, Navy and Air Force (a hundred people with a $10 million annual budget should be adequate). This would...
SYLP, Support Your Local Police, "dramatically blocked the Communists' attempt to destroy local police forces through the creation of Police Review Boards, and continually battled Federal government attempts to create a national gestapo...
...those who have always wondered what it would feel like to be worked over by the Gestapo, French Essayist and Novelist Jean Raspail has concocted a reasonable facsimile. The Camp of the Saints shrewdly exploits a dilemma that the world may well face: the moment when the burgeoning Third World rises from misery and forces the West to share more of its resources. Apocalyptic fiction could come from this chilling premise, but Raspail, 50, is willing to settle for a harangue...
...hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed the Ardennes offensive during Christmas week 1944, Skorzeny directed the infiltration of hundreds of English-speaking Germans clad in U.S. uniforms behind Eisenhower's lines. While awaiting a denazification trial in 1948, Skorzeny escaped...