Gestapo

Example Sentences

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“Music transports them to regions where the Gestapo can do them no harm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Does anyone think it would have been a good idea to keep an allegedly “reformed” Gestapo in place as a postwar law enforcement agency?

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

The Soviets handed her over to the Gestapo at the beginning of World War II, and she describes coming to the Nazi camp system and being issued clothes and utensils to eat with.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

Once war broke out, an Anglican church with a British caretaker attracted numerous visits from the Gestapo.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2024

The Gestapo arrested Karl and Rudi and a third boy, Gerhard Düwer, also seventeen, who had simply read the flyers and failed to report them.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti