ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GESTAPO
From German Ge( heime) Sta( ats) po( lizei), literally: secret state police.
4 QUOTES WITH «GESTAPO»
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Gestapo.
I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GESTAPO»
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Gestapo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Gestapo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This is the brutal expose of the rotten core of Nazi Germany. Here is revealed the true story of Hitler's terror police, the in-famous Gestapo-the madmen who headed it, the sadists who staffed it, the degenerate party that spawned it.
This is Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades- including her husband, under Nazi death sentence- from the prisons of Klaus ...
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The
Gestapo: A History of Hitler's Secret Police 1933–45
The book is a lively and expert account of this notorious but little-understood secret police that terrorized hundreds of thousands of people across Europe. [This is a text-only ebook edition.]
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Hitler's Enforcers : The
Gestapo and the SS Security Service ...
This first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, this book explores the roots of their roles in police terror and programs of mass murder.
State University of New York George C. Browder Professor of History College of Freedonia, 1996
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The
Gestapo: A History of Horror
This is a probing look at the Gestapo and the fanatics and megalomaniacs who made it such a successful and heinous organization—Barbie, Eichmann, Himmler, Heydrich, Müller. The Gestapo's notorious reign led to the murder of millions.
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Heinrich Müller:
Gestapo Chief
Offers information on the life of Heinrich Mèuller, the chief of the Gestapo, and his role in World War II.
"The Gestapo Hunters" embarks on a cataclysmic and daring retelling of true events at a time when the world was on fire and evil strutted across Europe.
Gestapo Lodge is the real-life tale of an MI6 agent's career in the most dangerous period of recent European history - the Second World War and its aftermath.
A garrison has been attacked and occupied by Russian troops. The German soldiers have been slaughtered. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered to get behind Russian lines and massacre those responsible. But this is only the beginning.
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My Argument with the
Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal
Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, onlyMy Argument with the Gestapohas survived perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print."
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GESTAPO»
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Gestapo is used in the context of the following news items.
More forgotten heroes of the kindertransports
Caught by the Gestapo, he was released after intervention by a Swiss relative, and managed to get to Warsaw to obtain a passport in a new ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Hungarian World War II Hero Ferenc Koszorús' Statue Unveiled
Koszorús was forced to escape the Gestapo and fled to the United States where he would eventually serve his adopted homeland in the US ... «Hungary Today, Jul 15»
Georg Elser: The lone wolf hero who nearly killed Hitler
That latter point was certainly uppermost in the minds of the Gestapo in the days after the explosion. Aware that Elser was a Communist ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
For the Liberty of France
The story begins with a Gestapo raid that targets the book's protagonist, André Boulloche. André is found by the Germans after a resistance ... «Washington Free Beacon, Jul 15»
The grade-school Gestapo is all grown up
Whatever became of your old grade-school Gestapo, whose go-to phrase, “I'm telling,” was as tiresome to the teacher as the troublemaker? «Columbia Daily Tribune, Jul 15»
ISIS 'female Gestapo' leading campaign of terror against own sex …
Islamic State's 'female Gestapo' is conducting a sickening campaign of terror against their own sex. The special brigade - set up to enforce the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
Media Ombudsman says Küska photos not offensive
“In my view, it would be the same as dressing up as Nazi or Gestapo members on the one hand and Jewish concentration camp prisoners on ... «Namibian, Jul 15»
Stockton enforcement team touts success stories amid criticism
“It should not be 'Gestapo' tactics. They should not be looking in people's medicine cabinets, under their couch cushions, in their clothes. «Stockton Record, Jul 15»
Ruth Marcus: Energetic determination: Two tales of quiet heroism
Winton cajoled British bureaucrats, forged travel documents, paid bribes to the Gestapo, and found British families willing to take in the Jewish ... «Tulsa World, Jul 15»
The problem with loyalty oaths
Something like a Secret Police, or what in Nazi Germany was called the Gestapo. Can the Philippine state set up a properly functioning Secret ... «Rappler, Jul 15»
