Gestapo
Example Sentences
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Gehlen, who was sponsored by the Americans, volunteered a trove of intelligence on the Soviet Union amassed under the Nazis and went on to recruit members of the SS and the Gestapo who evaded denazification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
Meanwhile, the Gestapo searched Hans’s apartment and found evidence to implicate the others.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
