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...Interpol started in 1923, when European police opened an information-swapping center in Vienna. After Hitler grabbed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo spirited the records to Berlin, where wartime bombing later destroyed them. In 1946, Interpol was reborn in Paris to combat postwar crime. It got a charter, a general assembly and a secretary-general-currently Jean Nepote, 52, a French Sûreté Nationale commissioner on leave. One-third of Nepote's 90-odd staffers are French detectives; most of his $500,000 annual budget is paid in dues by member countries-98 of them, from America...
...your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets, Roessler ultimately became the prey of the Gestapo, which stumbled onto his existence by intercepting his radio messages to Moscow. Fortunately, the Gestapo had not intercepted the radio messages from the ten OKW officers, and so they remained undetected throughout the war. But Gestapo Boss Walter Schellenberg zeroed in on Roessler in Switzerland, and only dodging...
...Thick Skin. Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876, when Bismarck was governing a recently united German nation. At 29, he was refused a life insurance policy as a bad risk because of weak lungs; at 68, his Gestapo jailers feared that he might commit suicide because, they reasoned, at that age, he "had nothing more to expect from life." He grew up in the Rhineland, with a Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne...
...years ago, a nattily dressed German climbed three flights of stairs to a shabby, document-cluttered flat in Vienna's Rudolfplatz, sat down to face Simon Wiesenthal. Said the visitor, an ex-Gestapo agent: "I know where you can find Franz Stangl-but it is going to cost...
Stangl, the wartime chief of the Treblinka concentration camp, was obviously of interest to Wiesenthal, a man possessed with chasing down escaped Nazi war criminals. When Wiesenthal protested that his Jewish Documentation Center did not have anything like $25,000, the Gestapo veteran began to dicker: "How many people did Stangl murder?" Wiesenthal's answer: about 700,000, including 400,000 Jews and the rest Christians and assorted anti-Nazis. "All right," said the visitor. "I'll give you a special price. How about a penny a head? That makes...