Word: auschwitzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power saw deep in the dark North German forest of Sachsenwald. "Hands up!" shouted an officer, and the surprised lumberjack allowed himself to be handcuffed without resistance. Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp...
When the blacklist of Nazi mass murderers was drawn up for the Nürnberg war crimes trials, Baer was presumed dead-The two SS men who commanded Auschwitz before him were caught and hanged by the Poles, one of them on gallows especially built so that the last sight to meet his eyes would be the camp in which he had sent an estimated 2,000,000 innocent Jews to their death. After Exterminator-in-Chief Adolf Eichmann was found in Argentina last May, West German intelligence officers started a fresh search for Baer...
Stilled Ovens. A baker's apprentice who joined the Nazis in 1930, he was trained in SS brutality as a guard at Dachau and in May 1944 sent to Auschwitz to replace a commandant deemed too soft by Eichmann & Co. That summer he kept the gas chambers and the four giant ovens roaring at top capacity to consume the 380,000 Jews Eichmann shipped in from Hungary. On Oct. 18, 1944, the gassing stopped because the Russians had pushed the battle line too close. In January, Baer ordered the camp's surviving 64,000 inmates to march...
...that was fastest and cheapest. Jews indelibly remember Eichmann's cynical offer in 1944 to trade 1,000.000 Jews for 10,000 trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent males? Fertile women? Old people? Children?" At the Nuremberg trials, a witness reported Eichmann's defiant boast: "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5,000,000 human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary...
Remembering the stinking holes of Poland's Auschwitz, the smoking crematoriums of Germany, the boneyards and mass graves of the Ukraine, vengeful Israelis are not disposed to argue the fine points of the law. Instead, they debate what punishment could possibly fit the crime. Hanging, most agree, is too easy. Said one survivor of Eichmann's camps: "He should be made to live under the very same conditions that we lived in the camps, eat the same crumbs of dried bread, work the same, smell the same putrid odors from the furnaces. Let's see how long...