Word: hangman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hangman Heydrich...
...impossible for any intelligent human being to have read your article on Hitler's chief hangman Heydrich without wanting to do all he possibly can do to defeat the Nazi regime. I was already shocked when I saw Heydrich's brutal face and the typical ears of that born criminal on the cover of TIME of Feb. 23. Now, on March 12, it will be exactly seven years when I had the misfortune to fall into his hands...
...officer snapped another picture. The hangman tightened the noose. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya stretched on tiptoe to shout: "Goodby, Comrades!" The hangman kicked the box and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya strangled to death...
...tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...
...Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, Hangman Heydrich has a spacious, bare-walled office with a big desk for himself, comfortable chairs, a sofa and cigarets for visitors. Foreign diplomats who used to visit him there, to plead or protest for fellow nationals, found him polite, attentive, even affable. But they noticed one thing about him-he never smiled...