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Residents criticized the nature of the police intervention, Govan said, and they used words like "provocative" and "Gestapo" to describe the action...
...socialist tinge and became disgusted by Hitler's later romance with big business. Expelled from the party in 1930, he formed the rival Black Front committed to Hitler's ouster, fled Germany in 1933, and churned out propaganda while leapfrogging about Europe one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1941 he found refuge in Canada (probably in exchange for information he furnished Allied intelligence), where he pecked at his typewriter and awaited repatriation as Germany's savior. He returned home in 1955, founded a new nationalist party-and watched it fizzle forthwith...
Company files show a barrage of letters to the S.S. and Gestapo commands demanding more "Subhumans" (French, Jewish, Russian or Eastern European) for the factories. Krupp officials in company uniforms selected prisoners for slave labor from those destined for the gas chambers. Krupp factories within sight of the crematoriums--or in the heart of German cities in plain view--produced the weapons of Nazi Germany with the labor of its victims. These workers were housed in dog kennels, in public urinals, tents and tunnels...
...West German law locksteps to its literal conclusion, a Nazi-hunter will go to jail while the convicted war criminal she tried to kidnap and spirit away to France will stay free. The hunted Nazi is Kurt Lischka, 65, the wartime Gestapo chief in Paris, who was tried in absentia by a French court in 1950 and sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the deportation and extermination of 100,000 French Jews. The hunter is Beate Klarsfeld, 35, German-born Protestant wife of a French Jew, who moved to Paris in 1960 and has made a career...
...Giscard was born to a tradition of wealth and public service. One of her grandfathers was Eugène Schneider, the 19th century steel tycoon. Her father was a career military officer who fought with the French Resistance before his capture by the Gestapo and died while a prisoner at Mauthausen concentration camp. Anne-Aymone was an 18-year-old secretarial student when she met Giscard, then 26 and a promising young official in the Finance Ministry. They were married, after a brief courtship...