Sentence examples for gestapo guards from inspiring English sources
It is this heroism that has inspired the French director Claude Lanzmann to make "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.," a 95-minute documentary built around a firsthand account of the uprising by Yehuda Lerner, one of the prisoners who killed Gestapo guards.
It was initially guarded by both the Gestapo and the SDS, but sole responsibility was eventually transferred to the SDS, who behaved sadistically and violently towards the inmates.
But the Spanish border guards, perhaps out of deference to the Gestapo, did not honor their visas and turned them back.
And the guards who enforce the border controls are reminiscent of the Gestapo, he says.
The stories of her exceptional sang-froid come thick and fast: skiing past the corpses of refugees frozen to death in the mountains, bribing guards, dodging bullets from a Luftwaffe plane on an open hillside and escaping from the Gestapo by biting her own tongue, spitting blood, and thus convincing her captors that she was ill with tuberculosis.
Involved with the resettlement of Soviet Jewish refugees in the 1980s, he was asked by Israeli officials to secure from the Soviets a Gestapo ID that would be crucial in the trial of "Ivan the Terrible" — the Nazi concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk.
Ken Livingstone, a former newspaper editor and mayor of London, has a long history of insensitive remarks about Jews — from publishing a cartoon in 1982 of Menachem Begin, then Israel's prime minister, in Gestapo uniform atop a pile of Palestinian skulls to likening a known Jewish reporter to "a concentration camp guard" 20 years later.
There were Gestapo in plain clothes everywhere.
