Brought to a standstill

Usage examples of arrested.

In Saxony the Socialist-Communist government was arrested by the local Reichswehr commander and a Reich Commissioner appointed to rule.

Hitler was shrewd enough to see that his trial, far from finishing him, would provide a new platform from which he could not only discredit the compromised authorities who had arrested him but - and this was more important - for the first time make his name known far beyond the confines of Bavaria and indeed of Germany itself.

In the spring of 1930 three young lieutenants, Ludin, Scheringer and Wendt, of the garrison at Ulm were arrested for spreading Nazi doctrines in the Army and for trying to induce their fellow officers to agree that in the case of an armed Nazi revolt they would not fire on the rebels.

Lubbe was arrested on the spot and Goering, as he afterward told the court, wanted to hang him at once.

Some four thousand Communist officials and a great many Social Democrat and liberal leaders were arrested, including members of the Reichstag, who, according to the law, were immune from arrest.

Christian Weber, the horse dealer and former cabaret bouncer, had arrested the Munich S.

Bose, shot down at his desk, his confidential collaborator, Edgar Jung, who had been arrested a few days earlier by the Gestapo, murdered in prison, another collaborator, Erich Klausener, leader of Catholic Action, slain in his office in the Ministry of Communications, and the rest of his staff, including his private secretary, Baroness Stotzingen, carted off to concentration camp.

Zoellner resigned from the Church Committee - he had been restrained by the Gestapo from visiting Luebeck, where nine Protestant pastors had been arrested - complaining that his work had been sabotaged by the Church Minister.

Kurt von Schuschnigg, quickly regained control, and the rebels, though promised safe-conduct to Germany through the intervention of the German minister, were arrested and thirteen of them later hanged.

This the Gestapo had known, but it had arrested Schmidt and threatened him with death unless he pointed the finger to the Commander in Chief of the Army.

Schmidt whispered that he would not be surprised if the both of them were arrested within the next five minutes.

Schuschnigg had been arrested and subjected to treatment so degrading that it is difficult to believe that it was not prescribed by Hitler himself.

The generals could scarcely have arrested Hitler and tried him as a war criminal when it was obvious that he was about to achieve an important conquest without war.

As many Jews, especially rich ones, are to be arrested as can be accommodated in the existing prisons .

Fifty more hostages will be shot in case the guilty should not be arrested between now and October 23 by midnight.