Word: gestapoes
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...Hungary a year later, the cheery clod is arrested once more. He is tortured by the Gestapo and condemned to a German labor camp, but he soon finds an excuse to see the misfortune as a blessing in disguise. Recognized by the camp commandant as a pure Aryan type, he is set free and inducted into the SS. After the war, to be sure, his SSimilation arouses suspicion, and he is sentenced to a long prison term. But then, he reasons, if he had not been brought to trial, his wife would not have seen his face in the paper...
...section and given a responsibility for the stations that operated in the occupied areas. As such, he was sometimes briefed by officials from Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry on the Nazi line. Kiesinger began to choke on it. By 1944, two of his colleagues denounced him to the Gestapo for toning down anti-Semitic broadcasts and for harboring democratic ideals...
...that. He insisted that he was drafted into Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry in 1940 and served only in a minor position in the section that beamed broadcasts abroad. To buttress his statement, he released a wartime document in which a Nazi informer had denounced him to the Gestapo for sup pressing anti-Jewish material on broad casts to the U.S. and for harboring liberal ideas...
...about a machine. Sensitive young Leonard Cog (Moni Buegeleisen) resists the tyranny of the Brain Cells and their Gestapo, the Ball-bearings (led by Musical Director Liz Robbins), to convert the world-machine from harsh angles to flowing curves through sabotage and quiet confidence. All this requires an awfully large chunk of willing suspension of disbelief. If Leonard's weltanschauung is "smooth, round and beautifully spherical" why can't he and the "well-rounded" ball-bearings live in peace...
...round. Contentment is compounded when a forlorn Jewish girl beds down with him. When his family gets lost in the wartime shuffle, the lovers happily play house in a refugee reception center until the missing wife and child are found. Then the lovers part. Many months later, fleeing the Gestapo, the girl timidly hunts up the shopkeeper at his home. Comfortably captured in the good old daily round, he refuses the risk of hiding her, and she is caught, tried, shot...