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  1. a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty
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In Collaboration To the Editor: While there may be some negligible errors in "The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police," by Frank McDonough (March 21917), the message is clear that with only 226,21917 Gestapo police, they were able to control 21917 million Germans, or over 53,25 per Gestapo member.
China's equivalent of the Gestapo might not appreciate this parallel.
He has compared the I.R.S. to the Gestapo, later apologizing.
However, it won't come with any sort of measles gestapo.
Someone reported them, and the Gestapo raided the Ulmas' farmhouse.
"She called ICE agents the Gestapo," Findlay told the Post.
A hand that belonged to a man in the Gestapo.
There was talk of ruined reputations and "Gestapo" police tactics.
The former Gestapo headquarters complex was destroyed in the 1950s.
In 1941, Goudeket, who was Jewish, was taken by the Gestapo.
"My family left Paris to escape the Gestapo," Ms. Sulitzer said.
In one text, Mr. Manafort compared Mr. Mueller to the Gestapo.
The Gestapo gained legitimacy precisely because it left most people alone.
Gone were the Gestapo at the door and the Franks' Hanukkah celebration.
They basically take it to the point where it's like the Gestapo.
Harry Truman privately worried that the CIA would become an American Gestapo.
A Nazi swastika embedded among the figures evokes Gestapo crimes of torture.
"The Gestapo rounded up and helped murder millions of Jews," Schumer tweeted.
With Hitler's dictatorship, they also lived with the Gestapo, or secret police.
But when the Gestapo pursued so-called enemies, it did so relentlessly.
There was a lot of the KGB in the design of the Gestapo.
Last weekend, Manafort said Cruz's campaign was using "Gestapo tactics" to lure delegates.
Shortly after Christmas the same year, the Gestapo summoned Becker and his lover.
Instead we need to audit and end the Fed and the Gestapo IRS.
The siblings were hauled to the Wittelsbach Palace, the headquarters of the Gestapo.
While his subordinates hauled them away, the Gestapo officer turned to the librarian.
While his subordinates hauled them away, the Gestapo officer turned to the librarian.
THE GESTAPO The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret PoliceBy Frank McDonough309 pp.
Germany's memories of the Gestapo and the Stasi undergird its commitment to free speech.
" In 1945, President Harry Truman noted that "We want no Gestapo or Secret Police.
A memorial in Jedwabne, claiming that the Gestapo had committed the crime, was removed.
The Gestapo caught up with Sendler in 1943, but she didn't break under torture.
Ms. Landecker was at work at Benckiser when the Gestapo came for her father.
They are less terrifying than the ghoulish local Gestapo man, played by Stephen Merchant.
She traced how the Gestapo had taken many of Chareau's pieces from his clients.
"Underresourced and overstretched," the Gestapo employed some 15,000 officers who policed 66 million Germans.
Georg Berger's Gestapo file makes no mention of imprisonment, Dachau or the Russian front.
The survivors were captured, tortured and executed by the Gestapo: 38 were killed in all.
On 5 March 1938, two Gestapo agents barged in on a Von Cramm family dinner.
Arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, Gréco spent several months at Fresnes Prison outside Paris.
He changed his mind after his daughter Anna was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo.
The eponymous Leonie Brandt was a double agent working for Dutch Intelligence against the Gestapo.
The Gestapo, her cousin told her, had taken her husband away to a concentration camp.
Shortly after the Anschluss, he was arrested by the Gestapo; by 1939 he was dead.
The war is over, the Germans are gone, the Gestapo is no longer hunting Jews.
The war is over, the Germans are gone, the Gestapo is no longer hunting Jews.
Develop a type of Gestapo here to seek out these people that are in the shadows?
He spent the rest of the war in a Gestapo prison and then a concentration camp.
Eventually, her counterfeit ring was tracked down by the Gestapo, and she was arrested in 1943.
It then became a magnet for ex-Nazis and Gestapo members looking for a second act.
Meanwhile, the Gestapo became convinced that a large resistance network was operating all across the country.
But even as a Gestapo prisoner, Freddy Mayer — beaten bloody, eardrum punctured, teeth missing — wasn't through.
After the Anschluss, he escaped by train to Switzerland while Gestapo agents were searching his apartment.
They were watched by the Gestapo and had to do much of their work in secret.
Acting on tips, the Gestapo twice raided the villa in Vienna where the Berger family lived.
The counter-monument contained the names of victims who had died at the hands of the Gestapo.
The Gestapo arrested Haining the following month on charges including political activity and espionage, which she denied.
WATCH: Inside LA's Craziest Pansexual Nightlub "I'm gay and everyone knows it," he told the Gestapo interrogator.
They arranged to have Wenzel's father visit the school to share his story about escaping the Gestapo.
"Social media goes Gestapo!" wrote Bill Mitchell, a conservative Twitter personality with 366,000 followers, on Monday evening.
A 19443-year-old boy pointed her out to the Gestapo while she was riding a tram.
"In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi," the judge said.
" His lawyer, the noxious Roy Cohn, called federal authorities "stormtroopers" and compared them with the Nazi "gestapo.
At a fundraiser a few days later, LePage acknowledged that the Gestapo killed Jews during the Holocaust.
Among the problems they have found is that the Gestapo often distributed looted works to multiple libraries.
Gestapo officers would round up the men and expel them while leaving Jewish women and children in Germany.
The Spanish customs authorities were holding up the transfer of Chagall's art work, reportedly because of Gestapo pressure.
Years, or describing life fighting the occupation, as in Agnès Humbert's Résistance, Lucie Aubrac's Outwitting the Gestapo, Marguerite
In March 1944, the Gestapo arrested and deported Veil, her parents, and all but one of her siblings.
But in 10 months the Gestapo shut the Bauhaus down for good as Hitler rose to national power.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) compared the raid to Stalin and the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police.
Just weeks before the end of the war, however, the Gestapo discovered Mr. Mayer's identity and imprisoned him.
Privacy, in a country that has suffered the Gestapo and Stasi, is a further reason to shun tech.
One was Erika von Brockdorff, a member of a resistance group the Gestapo called the Red Orchestra movement.
Just as she was about to leave for England in October 1943, she was captured by the Gestapo.
The Gestapo scene, one of the very best scenes of the year in any film, summarizes this perfectly.
Luxury condos built and sold in a former Gestapo headquarters in Hamburg led to an outcry last year.
He even claimed that he was hunted down by the Gestapo for refusing to hand over profoundly disabled children.
He appears unfazed — Zen-like, even — as four uniformed members of the Gestapo fire at him from all corners.
The réseau Gloria SMH for instance: betrayed to the Gestapo by the double agent Father Robert Alesch in 1942.
Her single mom, played by Abbie Cornish, is, on one evening, panicked by a visit from the local Gestapo.
Julián Zugazagoitia (1899-1940), a Spanish socialist politician and journalist, was captured by the Gestapo and executed in Madrid.
Family doctors and social workers joined Gestapo officers to identify "disabled" or "work-shy" individuals for incarceration or sterilization.
Roland Berger, a prominent consultant, often spoke of his father as a moral inspiration and victim of the Gestapo.
One such recollection concerned the Aix-en-Provence jail where Fourcade waited to be handed over to the Gestapo.
Manafort accused the Cruz campaign of "Gestapo tactics" and "not playing by the rules" in its efforts to wrangle delegates.
"Nobody who was brought here for interrogation came out unhurt," said Detlef Baade, whose father was tortured by Hamburg's Gestapo.
All it took was the word of a watching janitor for the pair to be marched away by the Gestapo.
They visited the places in Poland, the Czech Republic and eastern Germany where his grandfather had hidden from the Gestapo.
Once Cahun and Moore are arrested by the Gestapo, the narrative comes alive; the scenes are tense, particular and embodied.
Veteran had extremely traumatic experiences in combat and in the hands of the Gestapo who were ruthless in their methods.
I am quite sure that 80% of all New Yorkers will elect you (and this without concentration camps and Gestapo!).
The energy the Gestapo spent policing relationships between Germans and Jews shows that not all citizens accepted Nazi racial policies.
"We had the Gestapo come to our house every six weeks," Mr. Berger told an audience in Munich in 19443.
Indeed, the elder Mucha's Slav nationalism and his Jewish roots made him a primary target of the Gestapo during Nazi occupation.
He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, and he and his family were killed during the Allied bombing of Dresden.
Odette Sansom blew up Nazi train lines and, upon being arrested and tortured, told Gestapo officers: "I have nothing to say."
"This coordinated Gestapo-style roundup of free speech advocates is not a mistake of randomly timed," they said in a statement.
"We used to call [management] the little SS or the Gestapo because they all wore white shirts and ties," Aurilio said.
Germans tend to be skeptical of surveillance due to the history of the Nazi Gestapo and East German Stasi secret police.
Scepticism towards surveillance runs deep in Germany because of the excesses of the Nazi Gestapo and East German Stasi secret police.
Alex Kinon from Cause For Alarm and Jimmy Gestapo from Murphy's Law also liked the Psychos and slammed at our shows.
One time the Gestapo came every week searching the house because we weren't in the party and never had any uniform.
Branded a "degenerate" artist by the Nazis, Ernst fled France for New York in '41 with the Gestapo on his heels.
But the film takes an abrupt tonal shift when the Gestapo shows up, which I think was all to the good.
The SS and Gestapo forcibly removed approximately 30,000 Jewish men from their homes, among them were the men of our family.
Born in 1917, Cohen was detained with her mother-in-law in a Gestapo round-up in May 1944, near Marseille.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson defended the use of the term "Gestapo tactics" to describe Ted Cruz's campaign strategy.
But with a key member arrested by the Gestapo and our morale completely in the toilet, we disbanded and the game ended.
As the campaign continues to bleed delegates, though, Trump's flaks have accused the campaign of using "Gestapo tactics" to win the nomination.
IN 1943, when the Gestapo turned up at Hans Otto Jung's home in Frankfurt, he quickly nudged the dial on his radio.
One British officer who had been captured during the war found himself interrogating the Gestapo officer who once had brutally interrogated him.
Breezing into court, she took the stand and, by turns haughty, coquettish, weepy and coarse, spoke of Gestapo tactics in Beverly Hills.
I thought about Sibylle's comment when I saw it mentioned in Peter Fritzsche's review of "The Gestapo," by Frank McDonough (March 12).
Some compared the new outfits to street cleaners' uniforms, outfits worn by the Gestapo, or something used by the military in North Korea.
Surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany given its legacy of spying by East Germany's Stasi secret police and the Nazi era Gestapo.
Paul Manafort, who just assumed an expanded role in Trump's campaign, raised questions about the "gestapo tactics" of GOP presidential rival Ted Cruz.
But after the war, Warburg fired all the technicians, suspecting that they had reported his criticisms of the Third Reich to the Gestapo.
The Germans, the collaborationist militia, and the French Gestapo organization opened fire with machine guns, rifles, and pistols, and the battle was on.
Data privacy is a sensitive issue in Germany due to memories of Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police and the Nazi era Gestapo.
San Francisco city officials publicly criticized the raid, with then-Mayor Willie Brown likening it to "gestapo" tactics in the New York Times.
She is said to have used her deafness as an excuse to prevent the Gestapo from searching her home, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Mucha was interrogated by the Gestapo, accused of being a nationalist and a Jewish sympathizer, shortly before his death from pneumonia in 1939.
"Nazi and Gestapo documents often have a denunciatory character and often reflect conflicts over power and influence within Nazi institutions," the statement said.
Three years later, the Gestapo seized it and sold it; the van der Heyden painting went to Hitler's friend and photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.
Wacker was a prisoner of war on the Eastern Front during WWI and died in 1939 from injuries sustained in a Gestapo interrogation.
It's all fetishized and fascistic: Oiled leather and polished metal against field-gray coats and gold braid, Galahad and Percival reimagined as Gestapo stormtroopers.
Instead, Donald sued the Justice Department, alleging $100 million in damages, and his lawyer called the Justice Department lawyers Gestapo using storm trooper tactics.
She and Churchill fell in love and continued working together mobilizing Resistance members in southeast France until April 1943, when the Gestapo arrested them.
Privacy remains a sensitive issue in Germany due to extensive surveillance by Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police and by the Nazi era Gestapo.
The following year, Mr. Sandberg joined a plot to destroy the Amsterdam records office to prevent the Gestapo from identifying the city's Jewish residents.
"Their bodies remained there until the head of the Gestapo in Rouen ordered his subordinates to leave no trace of them," Quellien told reporters.
A 1973 RNA document in the archives of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission—the state's segregationist Gestapo—records him as the republic's minister of justice.
In September 1938, the Gestapo stormed into the Hotel Adlon in Berlin where he was living with his mother, Baroness Gerta Luise von Einem.
During Scholl's interrogation, Gestapo Chief Robert Mohr offered her a chance to save her life by betraying her brother and pledging allegiance to Hitler.
Ultimately, they helped the Nazis murder Jews by maintaining order and providing the Gestapo with the names of people to be deported and murdered.
Her father was an educator whose anti-fascist views earned him scrutiny by the Gestapo, which at one point picked him up for questioning.
In the two years leading up to D-Day, these brave women blew up railway lines, ambushed Nazi troops and the Gestapo, and gathered information.
A country with folk memories of the Gestapo and personal recollections of the Stasi is having to get used to armed police patrolling its markets.
He said at one point that America is living in a "Gestapo age" of government bullying and charged that Mr Obama lies like a "psychopath".
With the windspeed at 200 miles an hour, the three spies parachuted and made their way to Innsbruck, Austria, where the Gestapo had its headquarters.
Surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany where East Germany's Stasi secret police and the Nazi era Gestapo kept a close watch on the population.
"If the Gestapo should charge us with assisting the refugees to escape, prison would be a light sentence," she later wrote in an unpublished memoir.
You could almost hear her knuckles cracking as she took the stage for "Scheiße," and not just to complement her costume's Gestapo leather daddy vibes.
His attorney, Roy Cohn, went after the DOJ attorney on the case, calling her investigation "Gestapo-like" and tried to get her held in contempt.
On another occasion, he recalled, he was having drinks with a Wehrmacht colonel in a Paris hotel when a Gestapo officer asked for their identification.
My mother, who survived by working as a "Christian" nanny to a Gestapo family (she was Jewish but had Christian papers), reclaimed me in 1945.
Raised in what was then Romania and is now Ukraine, Krzysztofowicz was jailed by the Gestapo for assisting an anti-Nazi spy for the West.
Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was the Nazi SS officer in charge of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, from November 1942 to August 1944.
In 1944, the Third Reich had seized control of Norway and the Gestapo had seized her husband, throwing him in the Grini concentration camp in Bærum.
He was arrested for being an occultist Freemason by Hitler's Gestapo soon after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939 and died the same year of pneumonia.
The move to gentrify the former Gestapo torture chamber is causing consternation among locals who have voiced concerns that the complex's dark history is being erased.
Surveillance is a particularly sensitive issue in Germany where East Germany's Stasi secret police and the Nazi era Gestapo kept a close watch on the population.
Beginning in 1942, the Gestapo arrested dozens of Jews on my street, Jenaer Strasse, and shipped them to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, where almost all were killed.
The German Gestapo captured him in France and returned him to Barcelona, where he was sentenced to death and killed by a firing squad in 1940.
Late that year and into the next, the German Gestapo and the Soviet secret police, the N.K.V.D., held a series of conferences to coordinate their occupations.
Their Vienna storage facility, Schenker, informed the Grafs by letter that the entire contents of their storage locker had been confiscated by the Gestapo on Nov.
Within a few months, the children and their mother were hiding in a false closet, as Gestapo agents took their father to Auschwitz, and his death.
Manning has also referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as "literally the new gestapo," and has called for the elimination of the agency that enforces immigration laws.
Privacy is a particularly sensitive issue in Germany because of the surveillance by the Gestapo in the Nazi era and by communist East Germany's Stasi secret police.
In January, then President-elect Trump unearthed that old Gestapo comparison, accusing the Bureau, and America's spy agencies, of orchestrating a Nazi-like smear campaign against him.
As journalist Dom Schott pointed out this week, the real-life Franke was actually a resistance fighter in Dresden who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944.
"Well, he's threatening, you go to these county conventions, and you see the tactics, Gestapo tactics, the scorched-earth tactics," Manafort said on NBC's 'Meet the Press'.
The Franks hid from the Nazis in a secret annex of the house in Amsterdam for two years, and were found by the Gestapo in August 1944.
Her mother, who was known as Mira, was said to have been captured by the Gestapo in 1943 and tortured until she confessed to being a partisan.
"The swastika is indelibly linked to the Gestapo, the Holocaust and the horrors of Nazism," said Jeff Kingston, director of Asian studies at Tokyo's Temple University campus.
In "To Be or Not to Be," members of a Warsaw theater troupe pretend to be high-ranking Gestapo officers and Nazi operatives, and even Hitler himself.
Mr. Berger told of heartbreaking visits to his father in Gestapo detention, and said his father was later held at Dachau, the notorious concentration camp near Munich.
Germany goes to great lengths to protect data privacy following the abuses of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and the Stasi security police in Communist East Germany.
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Earlier this year, controversy erupted in Hamburg after a planned memorial to victims of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, was repurposed by high-end real-estate developers.
Surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany because of extensive snooping by the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany and by the Gestapo in the Nazi era.
Some spanned multiple regimes: The Lontsky Street prison in western Ukraine was used by Polish police and Nazi Germany's Gestapo before the Soviets wrested back control in 1944.
Surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany after the abuses by the Gestapo during the Nazi era and the Stasi in Communist East Germany during the Cold War.
If Vladimir and Estragon are fleeing the Gestapo or waiting for a contact in the Resistance, it gives them a purposefulness that makes a mockery of the play.
The legal changes have alarmed some Germans who attach great importance to privacy amid lingering memories of the Nazi Gestapo and old Communist East Germany's Stasi security police.
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) later issued a statement accusing the security agency of a "Gestapo-style operation" and demanded the release of judges arrested in the investigation.
Tom Wlaschiha (Jaqen H'gar from Game of Thrones) plays Hagen Forster, the head of the local Gestapo, who starts out the series as a fascinatingly multifaceted screen-Nazi.
At 21987, he led a Communist youth Resistance group, risking his life by smuggling small arms under the eyes of the Gestapo in Clermont-Ferrand, in central France.
It was through a Gestapo official that he learned that his real father was not the Austrian military attaché William von Einem but a Hungarian count, Laszlo Hunyadi.
That character, with her wounds from the Spanish Civil War, is pretty familiar, as are the shrugging French cop (Thierry Fremont) and the courteous Gestapo agent (Tom Wlaschiha).
In his memoirs, Nolde exaggerated and misrepresented the ban, saying he had been forbidden to paint at all, and that it was enforced by visits from the Gestapo.
" Sorting out reality from myth in "The Gestapo," Frank McDonough, who has written several books on the Third Reich, promises a new "understanding of terror in Nazi society.
The tribunal heard testimony that Georg Berger had been imprisoned by the Gestapo and escaped being sent to Dachau only because a sympathizer inside the secret police intervened.
"You are witnessing a modern-day book burning by the internet Gestapo that now decides what knowledge you're never allowed to access…" wrote Adams in a lengthy blog yesterday.
And despite passing through history's threshing machine with a series of conquering rulers, including kings, emperors, freedom fighters, Gestapo thugs and communist dictators, the artisans are still at it.
The Gestapo would also find a note one of the Ukrainian women had written for Hermann attesting to his kindness, to show in event of a Red Army victory.
A GIANT STATUE of Lenin still stands before the forbidding House of Government in Minsk, built by Stalin in 20203 and occupied by the Gestapo a few years later.
" Those comments follow an interaction with O'Rourke at an event last week at which a woman told him ICE is a "terroristic organization" and compared it to the "Gestapo.
State surveillance is a sensitive issue in Germany because of extensive snooping by the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany and by the Gestapo in the Nazi era.
Perhaps Harvard was expecting a scintillating lecture that called for abolishing the CIA and the presidency, or that Manning would once again compare U.S. immigration enforcement to the Gestapo.
As a blonde, he often had to play Nazis—he was a Gestapo officer in The Train, a famous film about art robbery during the Nazi occupation in France.
But Mayer also discovered the whereabouts of Hitler's secret Führerbunker in Berlin, facilitated the sabotage of a secret Messerschmitt airplane factory, and was captured and tortured by the Gestapo.
Here the Gestapo understood Germans' religious sensibilities, a latitude the churches did not take advantage of since they were sufficiently loyal to remain silent about the persecution of Jews.
The secret police found evidence that Georg Berger was illegally hoarding butter, eggs, soap and other scarce items that were strictly rationed at the time, according to Gestapo documents.
Imprisoned twice by the Nazis, she kept her network together and supplied critical intelligence to Britain and the United States, even as the Gestapo killed hundreds of its agents.
However, in contrivance to their initial agreement with the City Council, Quantum scrapped plans for what would have been a 2200,000 square foot memorial to the victims of Gestapo terror.
Surveillance is a sensitive topic in Germany, where memories of extensive snooping by the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany and by the Gestapo in the Nazi era remain.
He also helped to hide precious artifacts from the Gestapo, for example, by designing a bookplate to make it look as if a Jewish collector's books belonged to the Stedelijk.
When the Gestapo arrest her, they find it and use it, promising to send the daughter to a brothel on the Eastern Front unless her mother complies with their demands.
Amsterdam Journal AMSTERDAM — Hiding from the Gestapo in a secret annex of her father's warehouse in Amsterdam during World War II, Anne Frank heard a little knock on the wall.
In Manhattan, a charming bar called KGB hosts literary readings in a space decorated with Communist-era memorabilia; one can hardly imagine similar events in a swastika-festooned Cafe Gestapo.
He was more of a doer than a thinker, something of a troublemaker, confident in his ability to talk his way out of any mess, even a Gestapo interrogation cell.
Just in case there are any doubters, he rampages through the streets throwing grenades, firing his rifle and — in a final act of defiance — lights the Gestapo headquarters on fire.
On Sunday, Trump's new convention manager, Paul Manafort, told Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the Cruz campaign was using "gestapo tactics" to sway delegates into joining his camp.
The court had recommended the death sentence for her and her accomplice, a M. Marcadet, for betraying one of their friends to the Gestapo in exchange for a quantity of gold.
One day, a lawyer for Hermann Göring, the Luftwaffe commander and the founder of the Gestapo, said that Göring wanted to meet the correspondent who was a former concentration camp inmate.
Awaiting capture by the Gestapo, expecting torture and execution, Fourcade requested permission from a priest to take the cyanide pills she carried — suicide being a mortal sin in her Catholic faith.
They evaded an arrest by the Gestapo when my grandfather displayed his uniform, revolver and medals: He had served as a medical officer in the German army during the Great War.
As he saw it, these functions were to terrify the German populace, train the Gestapo and the S.S. in casual cruelty, and study how to most efficiently crush the human spirit.
""Forget fake news ol' fat fuck is pushing and watch @Corporate and @AloneTogether tonight…""'And on this day we celebrate the new Gestapo, President Turd and his army of cowardly fuck-bois.
Germans closely guard privacy and personal data, partly due to extensive surveillance by East Germany's Stasi secret police until the 1989 collapse of communism and, before that, by the Nazi-era Gestapo.
"Right or wrong, some equate BLM's law enforcement operations to the Gestapo of the World War II era," is how Utah's Garfield County Commissioner Leland Pollock put it to Congress in July.
My mother was saved from the Holocaust by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul who ignored orders and issued several thousand transit visas to Lithuanian Jews, allowing them to flee the advancing Gestapo.
It was shown again in the capital during World War II, when the Gestapo moved it to the Louvre for safekeeping under the orders of Heinrich Himmler, who wanted it for his castle.
Other countries are also looking at such technology, but Germans have traditionally been skeptical of surveillance due to abuses by the Stasi secret police in East Germany and the Gestapo under the Nazis.
The judiciary has been the subject of longstanding corruption allegations but the nature of the raids has been criticized as being unconstitutional, with the NBA accusing the DSS of a "Gestapo-style operation".
Future seasons will probably incorporate the comic's Gestapo-like missionary Herr Starr (absent here save for a cameo in the third episode) and an inbred halfwit descended from Jesus Christ, among other heresies.
Here I am referring to less obvious "methods," which allow the U.S. to have both the best espionage service in the world, and yet avoid the pitfalls of the KGB, STASI and Gestapo.
"The Democrats' 'Green New Deal' brings to mind an insight from Churchill: Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo," tweeted Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
READ: Trump aide: Cruz using 'Gestapo tactics' in delegate hunt A string of surveys of New York Republicans have shown Trump above the 50% threshold needed to clinch all of New York's statewide delegates.
The artwork, which was later confiscated by the Gestapo, resurfaced in the United States in 1951, where it remained until it was purchased by the Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza for $300,000 in 1976.
Born east of Prague in the town of Caslav in 1932, Forman spent summers at a lake hotel operated by his family until he was 19993 years old, when the Gestapo arrested his father.
We know a lot about these camps thanks in part to Varian Fry, an American journalist who helped save thousands of writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo, and Daniel Bénédite, his close associate.
Indeed, that's the structure of the first volume of "CoDex 1962," the "love story" in which Marie-Sophie, a young guesthouse worker in Lower Saxony, helps shield from the Gestapo a fleeing Leo Loewe.
A Scottish girl spy named Queenie is at the center of this thrilling tale of friendship set during World War II. She's imprisoned in a cell at the Gestapo headquarters in Nazi-occupied France.
But the family betrayed him, and the Gestapo sent him back to Belzec — where the detainees, including my father, were ordered to clean themselves in a shower that was steaming with gas, not water.
In it, a German man traveling to America under a fake name is intercepted and murdered by people pretending to be in the F.B.I. They might or might not actually be in the Gestapo.
The fear and mistrust of the refugees is palpable — the Gestapo is operating on the streets unfettered, arresting dissidents and hauling them into an unmarked house for interrogations — and suicide is a constant presence.
Production: Monika Bergmann at Picture Worx An earlier version of this article misidentified the officers who surrounded the Bauhaus building on April 11, 1933; they were members of the German police, not the Gestapo.
Donald J. Trump's new convention manager accused Senator Ted Cruz's campaign on Sunday of employing "Gestapo" delegate-wrangling tactics and said Mr. Trump still had several paths to winning the nomination before the July convention.
The carpet bombing of German cities during World War II; the "naughty document" that handed over Romania and Bulgaria to Stalin; comparing the Labour Party to the Gestapo — the list of Churchillian controversies goes on.
He decried the "Gestapo tactics" of his arrest, though that may have been because federal agents—who were on furlough because of the government shutdown but reportedly volunteered for the job—feared he would destroy evidence.
Haining, who had taught Christian and Jewish girls at a boarding school of the Church of Scotland's Mission in Budapest, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and later died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Furst, who is known for his detailed research into both cat-and-mouse sides of occupied Europe, shows not just Mathieu and his comrades but also all kinds of Germans, including the police and the Gestapo.
They transcribed 3,000 survivor testimonies between 1944 and 1947, scavenged for Nazi paperwork in abandoned Gestapo offices and meticulously preserved fragments of day-to-day ghetto life — a child's school notebook or a food ration ticket.
The Gestapo imprisoned Serge and his family in a French detention camp in 1944, and his father was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where the Germans hoped to use his skills as an aircraft designer.
In place of a president who defends the honor and integrity of his own officers and agencies, we have one who humiliates his attorney general, denigrates the F.B.I. and compares our intelligence agencies to the Gestapo.
Trump aide: Cruz using 'Gestapo tactics' in delegate hunt Adelson still on sidelines No new face would be more celebrated than the man who loomed large over the weekend at The Venetian: the hotel's titan, Sheldon Adelson.
My grandfather, Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim, a doctor and at the time a political prisoner, had recently been transferred there from a Gestapo prison in Hamburg, where he was interrogated about what authorities suspected were subversive views.
Before the war, the painting had been owned by Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus, Jews who fled their Vienna penthouse, leaving behind a carefully packed collection of art that was then confiscated by the Gestapo in 1941. Mrs.
The claim from Paul Manafort, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's new convention manager, that rival Ted Cruz uses "Gestapo tactics" to win votes demonstrates how nasty the 2016 primary has gotten, according to a Republican political consultant.
In 2018, the former Gestapo headquarters in Hamburg, where Jews, gay people, Roma and other people targeted by the Nazis were tortured and murdered, a cluster of high-end apartments, luxury boutiques and offices opened for business.
Arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 in Bratislava for forging baptismal certificates for fellow Jews to avoid Nazi persecution, he was sent to Auschwitz with his first wife, Gisella, who was killed in the camp's gas chambers.
BERLIN — In the heart of Berlin, where memories of the Gestapo and the Stasi remain and distrust of secret-service agencies still runs high, Germany has opened what is being called the world's largest intelligence service headquarters.
It was thus a shock for Mr Berger when a newspaper investigation revealed that his father, Georg, was a profiteer from the Nazi regime rather than the committed Christian hounded by the Gestapo as he had always claimed.
The son of a Communist who died at the hands of the Gestapo, Stern was a life-long idealist, a believer in communism, and after the abortive Prague Spring of 1968, a devotee of its more dissident strains.
One time I was standing by a parked car outside the Mudd Club, where Fear and The Young and the Useless were playing, and Big Paul and Jimmy Gestapo from Murphy's Law came out looking for a fight.
But the heart of the operation is bringing British informants to MI5's fully bugged apartment, so comfortingly close to Mosley's, for meetings with Mr. Toby, who poses as a Gestapo officer and elicits everything they've picked up.
As directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, however, Elser's capture and lengthy questioning by the Gestapo is a wasted opportunity to illuminate the mind of a man whom historical accounts variously describe as apolitical yet deeply concerned with workers' rights.
He insisted he was a victim of the Gestapo, and while the French initially barred him from continuing his business activities, American officials overturned that judgment and called him a "follower" of Nazism rather than an active Nazi.
At the beginning of World War II, Fautrier's studio became a meeting-place for his friends who were active in the French Resistance, and after a temporary arrest by the German Gestapo, he went into hiding in a sanitarium.
Stephen Merchant's Gestapo Officer Deertz searches Jojo's home for hiding Jews but gets caught up in the Nazi greeting protocol — he and his fellow officers introduce themselves with a "Heil, Hitler" to each and every person in the room.
As the survivors, all young adults, dodge the Gestapo and sidle past Jewish informers like the infamous Stella Goldschlag, these scripted sections, though engagingly acted and atmospherically filmed, play like mere teasers for epic tales of courage and ingenuity.
There, the prince met relatives of the late Rachel Cohen, who was hidden from the Gestapo, along with two of her five children, by Princess Alice, the mother of Britain's 97-year-old Prince Philip, in her palace in Greece.
Max Ernst, who was persecuted by the Nazi Gestapo police and cast out to an internment camp in France with other surrealist artists as "undesirable foreigners," arrived in the US in 1941 with the help of his future wife Peggy Guggenheim.
It opens with a wartime memory: Simon's frail friend, Mimi, recalls a piece of meat carved from a donkey that her father killed in desperation while in hiding, an act that led his neighbors to betray him to the Gestapo.
Convinced that the threat of communist infiltration had been overstated and could easily be contained by less repressive measures, he worried that EO 22003 would only empower the FBI, which he likened to the Gestapo and the Soviet secret police.
Crowley send a similar letter to his fellow congresswoman Yvette Clarke in New York when she stood in front of the ICE building and called us the Gestapo, the Nazis, the most prolific hate group in the history of the world.
"And with George McGovern as President of the United States we wouldn't have to have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" he said, causing Mayor Richard J. Daley and the Illinois delegation to rise in fist-pumping, epithet-spewing fury.
After the port city of Caen was bombed by the Allies, the local Gestapo officers decided to kill all remaining political fighters in its prison who could not be deported to camps to the east, French historian Jean Quellien said.
Surveillance is a sensitive issue because of extensive snooping by the Stasi secret police in Communist East Germany and by the Gestapo in the Nazi era, and the Federal Court of Justice decision overturned a ruling by a lower court.
Unlike the hero of Stefan Zweig's "Chess Story," who drove himself mad in Gestapo captivity, trying to play both sides of a mental chess game, Mr. Zobernig finds a way to make the severe black-and-white grid warm and fuzzy.
After a lengthy Gestapo interrogation, he was detained for nine months in Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp made famous in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," which recounted how 76 British and Allied aviators tunneled to freedom.
Con más de doscientos mil elementos, el archivo de Blumental es uno de los más abarcadores de la época, con un enfoque específico: registrar las palabras que usaban la Gestapo, SS y otras fuerzas nazi para disimular o esconder sus atrocidades.
In the mid-1930s, as Italy prepared to invade Ethiopia, he was sent to a small town he calls Gagliano; his account of his yearlong stay there was written years later, in Florence, while he was hiding from the Gestapo.
Dreyfus discovered that French moving companies had been contracted by the Gestapo to help strip Jews' apartments after they were rounded up, bringing all their worldly possessions to depots where they were sorted and redistributed into the Reich for bomb victims.
It's now little-remembered, but a signature moment of the Trump era came back on January 11 when, shortly before Inauguration Day, Trump tweeted that in his opinion, the American intelligence services were engaged in conduct similar to the Nazi Gestapo.
After parachuting into Central France with Borrel, de Baissac set up an Allied safe house for agents in the town of Poitiers in western France, selecting an apartment near Gestapo headquarters — a hiding-in-plain-sight strategy she felt would arouse less suspicion.
Racists openly rally and murder people, policemen routinely kill the people they are paid to protect, the government endorses a group that is a modern-day gestapo, and people who dare to protest this reality are relentlessly misrepresented by right-wing media.
A Jew, during World War II he was taken into custody by the Gestapo, and although she worked for seven weeks to convince the wife of the German ambassador to release him, eventually succeeding, she also made contributions to several pro-Nazi newspapers.
CAEN, France (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute on Wednesday to 71 French Resistance fighters shot dead by the Gestapo on the day Allied forces landed in Normandy but whose bodies were never recovered, as he marked the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
If suspicion of Facebook and Google is a relatively new feeling in the United States, it has been embedded in Europe for historical and cultural reasons that date back to the Nazi Gestapo, the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe and the Cold War.
Elsewhere in that city, at 84 Avenue Foch, Odette Sansom, a French-born British intelligence officer, was having a very different war, as she was being given a "Gestapo pedicure," with each of her toenails yanked out during interrogations by German intelligence officials.
KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE This new play by Robin Glendinning is based on the fascinating true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican priest who helped Jews escape the Nazis in Rome, and the powerful Nazi Herbert Kappler, head of the Gestapo there.
Bracketed by movements with libretti built on texts depicting scenes of mothers who have lost their children in war, the second movement's libretto is a message 18-year-old Helena Wanda Blazusiakówna wrote to her mother while imprisoned in a Gestapo cell during WWII.
To move from the hypothetical to the real, the Virginia Tech students who protested their university's invitation to Charles Murray to deliver a lecture weren't some sort of intellectual gestapo, they were members of a community calling out other members' violation of the community's ethos.
About the Salem witch trials, the Spanish Inquisition, the martyrdom of early Christians, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, the Gestapo, Pol Pot and any of the other historical monsters and catastrophes you like to invoke when talking about whatever is bothering you in contemporary culture.

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