Gestapo

Example Sentences

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But as Alan Riding wrote in his book “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” Fry found himself in a “no man’s land of Gestapo spies, corrupt French police and refugees galore.”

From New York Times

In 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Grenoble, where he was part of a Jewish resistance movement.

From New York Times

One of his most intimate friends, the pianist Nicole Henriot, would have her hand crushed by the Gestapo; Munch joined the Resistance, helped those he could, and tried to avoid compromising situations.

From New York Times

She learned later that her father had narrowly escaped the Gestapo, who had at one time held him in prison in Vienna.

From New York Times

It is a good place to catch quarry that has escaped the clutches of the Gestapo.

From Los Angeles Times