Word: henker
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Henker's Hell
...about me, or the French saboteurs, or the Dutch and the Belgians and the Norwegians. We've shot or hanged more than 400,000, not counting all who die in tue concentration camps. There's a rhyme in Germany which goes: 'Himmler der Heuchler, Heydrich der Henker' which means 'Himmler the Hypocrite, Heydrich the Hangman.' The countries we've conquered will remember me, the swine...
...feet 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...
...Henker. This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both. But Reinhard Heydrich is the man of brains and the man of action of the Geheime Staatspolizei, better and more darkly known as the Gestapo...
Such is the man who now confronts Europe's rebellious millions. Last summer Der Henker stated his theory of police work: "The complete understanding of the opponent in his fundamental intellectual element, complete understanding of and police inquiry into his organization and its leading personalities, and finally the systematic opposition, crippling, destruction and abolition of this opponent by the Executive power...