Word: breitscheid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs on Buchenwalde. According to Goebbels, Allied bombs fell on the Buchenwalde concentration camp near Weimar, killing Ernst Thälmann, pre-Hitler Communist leader, Dr. Rudolf Breitscheid, Social Democratic Prussian Minister of the Interior in the days of the Weimar Republic. According to the Allies, no raid was made on Weimar that day. According to neutrals, the Luftwaffe did the job, destroyed some 7,500 inmates. But few doubted that 58-year-old Thälmann, who polled five million votes for President in 1932 and has spent eleven years in concentration camps, was dead. Himmler's purge...