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Usage examples of gestapo.

Gina opened the envelope and drew out a copy of Green Gestapo: Hidden Agendas for Social Control in the Nineties.

Churchill was to be placed in the hands of Amt VI - Foreign Intelligence - but most were to be handed over to Amt IV - the Gestapo.

She told me how the Resistance had used her bar as a meeting place until the Gestapo had discovered she served the best sea-food in Deauville and began to patronise her cooking.

Kept under house arrest from March 12 until May 28, during which time the Gestapo contrived to prevent him from getting any sleep by the most petty devices, he was then taken to Gestapo headquarters at the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, where he was incarcerated in a tiny room on the fifth floor for the next seventeen months.

But why then did the plotters not seize the Gestapo headquarters in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse and not only suppress the secret police but liberate a number of their fellow conspirators, including Leber, who were incarcerated there?

Speidel himself, though incarcerated in the cellars of the Gestapo prison in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse in Berlin and subjected to incessant questioning, became neither broken nor bewildered.

I knew that in the weeks leading up to the Olympiad, the Gestapo were making strenuous efforts to smash the communist underground in Berlin.

At the same time, appreciating the difference between the SD, or Sipo as the Security Service was sometimes called, and the Gestapo was a rather more elusive matter, even for some of the people who worked for these two organizations.

Henry, as I said, there are Gestapo agents on the trains and at the border.

She heard Gestapo in every puff of air that slipped in, among any of a thousand windways of dilapidation.

A locker room of police spacesuits would be sabotaged, and a few days later a tactical squad of the gestapo would storm into the barrack tubes, busting stills, confiscating drug stashes, and making summary arrests.

The triggermen in their crew are like an elite Gestapo, taking orders from no one but Pat and Mike.

The raping and butchering in Chinese cities, the tortures in the cellars of the Gestapo, the elderly Jewish professors flung into cesspools, the machine-gunning of refugees along the Spanish roads -- they all happened, and they did not happen any the less because the Daily Telegraph has suddenly found out about them when it is five years too late.

One day the books will play up more gruesome aspects of Auschwitz: the medical experiments on women and children, the collecting of tons of female hair and the skeletons of twins, the mutilating tortures of the Gestapo, the casual sadistic murders of slave workers, and of course the covert asphyxiation of millions of Jews.

I remember the Surete and the Gestapo men as extremely clean, eating huge Arab meals in nameless backrooms in the souk of Algiers, their voices melodic with confidence, softened by self-importance.