Word: gestapo
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years ago British Newsman George Eric Rowe Gedye had to leave his New York Times headquarters in Vienna when the Gestapo kicked him out of Austria. The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions. Month later the Gestapo chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U. S. newspaper bureaus...
...battered city, they found him at his desk, still defiant. He disappeared and Berlin hinted that he had committed suicide. Like many another suicide, he turned up in Dachau Concentration Camp. The Nazis reported that Starzynski's crime was "misappropriation" of Warsaw's funds. A year of Gestapo urging failed to uncover them...
...with "nuisance" raiders over Britain at all hours. A lot of their night flights were evidently for training, for extra pilots baled out of many planes brought down. Lest their morale be affected by repeated rebuffs from the defense rings around London, watchful agents of the Gestapo rode in many of the Luftwaffe's formations. R. A. F. called them "German governesses" and took special delight when they were shot down...
...Donovan & Mowrer, spends $200,000,000 annually on an organization of some 4,000,000 agents. Said Donovan & Mowrer, Nazis require every German leaving the Reich to promise to report back everything seen & heard abroad. The great army of the political underworld includes private citizens, members of the Gestapo, the official Propaganda Ministry, the German Labor Front, the intelligence services of the German Army, Navy and Air Corps, officials in the embassies and consulates...
...Nazis and the Strasser role in it. Valuable too were the intimate glimpses and records of Nazi big shots; of Hitler in conversation with Ludendorff, Hindenburg, his sub-leaders; a vivid account of the June Purge, its debunking of Hitler's part in it; the chronicles of the Gestapo at work, with ambushes, escapes, assassinations...