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Sullen Romans watched Fascisti parade. Gestapomen watched the Romans. Suddenly a bomb exploded, followed by shots. Men & women fell, including, the Germans said afterward, 24 Gestapomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death at 84 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Judas in Oslo | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Across the narrow waters of the Öre Sund word came to Sweden last week that 1,800 Gestapomen, sent to Copenhagen specially for the job, had broken into Jewish homes and synagogues during Rosh Hashanah, arresting most of Denmark's 10,000 Jews. The reports said the Germans planned to ship their prisoners to the charnel houses of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Quality of Mercy | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...pedal his bicycle almost every day. Now the palace is the home of Major Vidkun Quisling and an entertainment center for Nazi bigwigs, enjoying far greater luxury than frugal Norwegians would ever have expected of "Mr. King." Early in the morning, on the King's birthday, Nazi Gestapomen, Norwegian police and Quislingist Hirden (henchmen) began patrolling Oslo streets. But there was no trouble until the Nazis noticed that hundreds of Norwegians were wearing flowers in their buttonholes and tried to pluck some of them out. Then arrests and riots began. In the center of the town be-flowered crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Flowers Verboten | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Last week a tale leaked from Germany through London which must have given the Wehrmacht a sardonic laugh. In their glittering Mercedés, two top-notch Gestapomen were found bullet-riddled far behind the battle line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Volkswagen Sind Doch Besser | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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