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
Reckzeh had been set up as a spy and agent provocateur by the Gestapo: Thadden had been fooled by his elaborately constructed cover story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Among the evidence Antony's investigation has unearthed is a list made by the Gestapo, detailing specific artefacts and paintings which were seized from his relatives.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Hitler’s secret police, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, hounded Catholic priests, nuns, and other church officials, instructing priests what to say in their sermons and classrooms.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
