Word: auschwitzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in 20 years, the German language echoed once again through the cells, bunkers and crematoria of the infamous death camp at Auschwitz. It was spoken there by 16 lawyers and a judge from a Frankfurt war-crimes trial, who had made a special trip to Poland to check the credibility of testimony given at the trial of 21 accused Nazi murderers. Since war's end, Poland has kept a portion of the camp intact as a memorial to the estimated 3,000,000 slain prisoners, and as the German voices rang out, a Pole who had himself...
...Wolff had been Heinrich Himmler's closest confidant and his chief liaison officer to Hitler, had "supported and guaranteed" their plans to exterminate the Jews, and, between July and September of 1942, supplied the boxcars that took 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghettos to the ovens of Auschwitz...
Passenger. Two worldly matrons meet aboard a luxury liner, and flashbacks recall their relationship in Auschwitz concentration camp, one as a strong-willed prisoner, the other as a vindictive German guard. There, in an unexpected reversal of the usual atrocity tale, the guard is revealed to be not the master but the victim of the evil power she owns. Polish Director Andrzej Munk died in an auto accident in 1961 before the film was finished, but admiring associates fleshed it out with narration and eloquent still photographs to shape a classic, poignant memorial...
...regards the Jew as a candidate for conversion and proclaims that the destiny of Judaism is to disappear is bound to foster reciprocal distrust as well as bitterness and resentment," he said. "As I have repeatedly stated to leading personalities of the Vatican, I am ready to go to Auschwitz any time, if faced with the alternative of conversion or death...
Recruited by an Israeli agent, Hüttenmeister became convinced that he could somehow make amends for Auschwitz and Buchenwald by helping Israel protect itself against Egyptian plots and plans. After training in cryptography and other techniques in an Israeli-operated spy school in Paris, Hüttenmeister flew to Cairo with instructions to pick up a capsule of microfilm from a Sudanese clerk named Ismail Sabri and smuggle it out of Egypt. The neophyte spy had no sooner taken the film than he was arrested by Egyptian security agents...