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Show ACTIVITIES OF GESTAPO BARED With the ringing challenge, "We can do plenty about the Nazi Gestapo in Amerca" Friends of Democracy, Inc., with headquarters in the Fidelity building, Kansas City,' Mo., this week published a spine-chilling document on the activities, here and abroad, of Hitler's secret police. This 32-page document, released for publication publica-tion here simultaneously with its release at New York, is the first detailed exposure given Americans Ameri-cans of the creeping organization n the United States of the dread Gestapo, L. M. Birkhead, national na-tional director, said to newspapermen this week. Besides citing chapter and verse of the Nazi Gestapo's Ges-tapo's infiltration into many walks of American life, the document of Friends of Democracy treats photographically and textually with the "Gestapo Scourge in Germany" and its terrorist terror-ist acts in the "blitzed" countries of Europe. "Naziism and the Gestapo are interchangeable terms," National Director Birkhead told newspapermen newspaper-men at national headquarters here. "Friends of Democracy is convinced that these revelations will unite Americans to fight Naziism wherever its vi-ciousness vi-ciousness appears, so that never again can. Gestapo terrorism take root in this land of freedom. "Wherever Hitler's gra-green legions goose-step goose-step triumphantly in the conquered countries of Europe, the road to treachery has been prepared by the Gestapo. Under the leadership of Hein-rich Hein-rich Himmler, the Gestapo has become the most destructive agency in the world. Herr Himmler's agents are the tentacles of the Nazi octopus reaching out and enslaving the world." The document, distributed nation - wide by Friends of Democracy, contains candid-camera shots of Gestapo mass executions in Europe, and facsimile reproductions of Gestapo commands to agents abroad, including those in "key" positions, "immediately menacing men-acing the security of this land of free people." The graphic exposure concludes with the militant warning warn-ing that "we Americans must offer all our strength, all our resources, to the forces of freedom now fighting fight-ing Naziism and the paralyzing terrors of Gestapo-ism. Gestapo-ism. This means all-out aid to Britain now." |