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Word: baretzki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some guards could not sleep well at night unless they had beaten someone to death during the day, recalled Dr. Otto Wolken, 60, an Austrian physician at Auschwitz. Calmly pointing out one defendant, Stephan Baretzki, Wolken explained how the guard organized "rabbit hunts." A prisoner would kneel down before Baretzki. At the order "Go, go," the inmate would scamper away on all fours. Then he was shot in the back. While the police dogs at Auschwitz slept in warm, clean kennels with concrete floors, humans were housed in filthy, crowded barracks where they lapped the muddy floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Painful Purgative | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

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