Word: gestapoman
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...attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued to splash along the Moellergaten...
When sadistic Gestapoman Kurt Rediess suppressed Oslo University last December, sending all male students who could not prove themselves good quislings to German concentration camps, he ruptured upwards of 1,000 homes. Last week some of those homes received their first news of missing sons,: a printed form from Oranienburg, reporting the death of the student, offering to ship the ashes for 75 crowns (prewar...
...shallow valley sheltering the town. The town was Lidice, and Karl Horak saw it die (TIME, June 22-, 1942). Of Lidice's 1,200 human beings Horak, so far as he knew, was the only one who escaped the Nazis' savage reprisal after the killing of Gestapoman Reinhard Heydrich...
...moved from house to house, sniffing out new victims for the Heydrich funeral pyre. Often they chose those merely suspected of approving of the attack on Heydrich. But they did not find the two patriots, possibly Czech parachutists dropped from British planes, who had struck down the No. 2 Gestapoman. Dr. Emil Hácha, puppet President of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, offered a 10,000,000-crown reward ($340,000 at pre-war exchange values) for the executioners of the Executioner. It was not good enough...
...onstage as his killers raise the curtain on their bombed and abandoned theater; he undertakes the role of his life by impersonating the dead spy. He is doing well when his vanity pricks him to ask the Gestapo head his opinion of Tura, the pre-war actor. Growls the Gestapoman: "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland...