Word: gestapoes
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Near the end of his 1938 study trip, Bober journeyed into Italy and almost into the hands of the Gestapo. Misunderstanding the Italian order to declare all the money he had, he declared his Italian currency only. He could have been accused of leaving the country with more money than he had declared on entering. But, stuffing the extra cash into his shoes, Bober slipped by the Italian officials. When he reached down to remove the money from his shoes, however, a group of Nazis stalked into his compartment. The Nazis started a severe cross-examination of the frightened...
Tikonoff brought his second wife, his two children, and his balalaika to America in 1951. He had toured three continents with his combination madelinguitar before the Gestapo sent him off to a forced labor camp in 1941, but has performed professionally only once since his arrival in America...
...host state into which he may have escaped. The United States discovered in the nick of time the sinister implication of a soviet sponsored United Nations proposal to this effect. But fifteen years earlier, many nations signed without any scruples a similar series of agreements--the so-called Gestapo Pacts--with Germany...
...died in the camp hospital. Yeo-Thomas was shipped to another camp, Gleina, as Maurice Chouquet. There he worked in the hospital, and watched his chance to escape. It came only when the whole camp was moved eastward, into Czechoslovakia, for extermination. On the way he bribed another Gestapo officer and, during a halt to bury some dead prisoners, led a mass flight across the fields to a nearby wood...
...ended shortly, and having thus neatly disposed of the Gestapo, Yeo-Thomas went back to handling the customers of Molyneux. "Madam," he replied with tactful understatement to the lady who had wondered about His war experience, "I was in the Royal Air Force...