Word: metropol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...