Gestapo

Example Sentences

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But as Alan Riding wrote in his book “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” Fry found himself in a “no man’s land of Gestapo spies, corrupt French police and refugees galore.”

From New York Times

Around 160 members of the network, including many women, were captured by the Gestapo, often tortured, executed or sent to German concentration or extermination camps.

From Washington Post

The grandson of Holocaust survivors who were aided by resettlement organizations, he has compared a federal vaccine-or-testing mandate to the actions of the Gestapo, and today’s Afghan refugees to “alligators.”

From New York Times

She recalls the medical equipment the Nazis confiscated from her grandfather’s clinic, and her family’s Schroeder grand piano that a soldier started playing as the Gestapo escorted her out of bed and arrested her.

From New York Times

On Tuesday, during one of her approximately 8 trillion public statements accusing her perceived political opponents of being Nazis, Greene used the word "gazpacho" when she meant "Gestapo."

From Salon