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

In May 1942 her network was infiltrated by the Nazis and soon Gestapo officers were in hot pursuit.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024

I remembered Father’s words to the Gestapo chief in The Hague: “I will open my door to anyone in need. . . .”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom