Gestapo
Example Sentences
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One acidly suggested calling it “Truman’s Gestapo Airlift.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
Gestapo agents arrived at the Berlin apartment of Countess Maria von Maltzan in 1943 after being tipped off by one of her neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Using extreme caution, they only bought earphones from storeowners whom they trusted not to report the purchase to the Gestapo.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
