Word: gestapoes
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While still eager to catch such big fish as Martin Bormann, Hitler's top deputy, and Heinrich Müller, a boss of the Gestapo, who are repeatedly rumored to be alive in hiding, Bonn claims that an extension of the statute would mainly net unimportant minnows at home, and overburden prosecutors who find it harder and harder to prove specific charges after 20 years. As one official puts it: "If you want to bring to court every railroad man who pulled the switches at Auschwitz, knowing that the trains were carrying Jews to their deaths, there will...
...University of Munich. Under the romantic name of the White Rose, they authored pamphlets eloquently attacking the regime. After one particular Nazi outrage, they openly distributed the leaflets around the university, even scattered them from rooftops in the vain hope of inspiring an uprising. Agents of the dread Gestapo carted them off to prison, later rounded up close to 100 of their friends. Condemned to death, Hans and Sophie never once lost their composure; just before he was beheaded, Hans cried out: "Long live liberty...
...prisoner of war in Germany, I was put to work in villages near the town of Ellwagen, where a few years earlier the Bishop of Rothenburg had made a resounding sermon denouncing the Nazi regime and philosophy. The Gestapo came at once to arrest the bishop, but he managed to flee to Switzerland. However, his sermon had been printed, and the villagers were keeping copies of it carefully hidden. Some of them showed it to us, warning us "nicht sagen...
Sensational Arrests. Germans are distressingly familiar with Untersuchungshaft; it inevitably became a favorite Gestapo tactic. But only recently, as the result of a number of sensational investigative arrests, has a reform movement been started. Half a dozen ranking executives of West Germany's big Henschel Werke (locomotives, trucks, land movers) have been jailed on suspicion of defrauding the West German Defense Ministry, including President Fritz-Aurel Goergen, who was hauled away from a banquet honoring Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (TIME, May 8). Germany's biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed...
...part of German culture as Goethe and Schiller." They both know how to alter passports, how to dress inconspicuously to put off the police, how to conceal a vial of poison or perhaps a razor blade as a last remedy if they should fall into the hands of the Gestapo. The man named Schwarz describes a common enough European odyssey-the flight from Germany to Paris with his wife, internment in the early months of the war, escape and flight again across France until they are carried with the flood of human driftwood to a last beach in Lisbon. There...