Word: gestapoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly three years the widow of topflight Gestapoman Reinhardt ("the Hangman") Heydrich (see BOOKS), neatly assassinated by the Czech underground in 1942, has collected a $46-a-month pension from the West German government. Frau Heydrich's stipend is justified on the ground that her husband was killed in enemy action. Last week a provincial court was mulling a government suit that would end her pension...
Last week in a Communist court in Prague, five more Nazis, charged with "crimes against humanity," received a quick trial and death sentences. Recently brought from Russia, they were: Nazi staff Officer Friedrich Gottschalk, Gestapoman Walter Richter, and SS (Elite Guard) Generals Ernst Hitzegrad, Richard Schmidt and Max Rozstock. Three women survivors of Lidice identified Rozstock, former chief of Nazi security in Kladno, Bohemia, as the man who directed the destruction of Lidice. Unexplained: why the Russians waited so long...