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...visit the military cemetery. Asked who was buried there, Speakes replied that he "thought" both American and German soldiers were interred at the site. He later refused to ex plain where he had received that impression or whether the President had also assumed this to be true. The furor broke when reporters discovered that not only were there no Americans in the cemetery but that the notorious SS officers were among the dead there...
...Jews was swollen by thousands of new prisoners, most of them starved and diseased after weeks of forced marches. By early 1945 Bergen-Belsen held 41,000 inmates. Rations were less than meager. Inmates were beaten and abused. There was virtually no medical attention, and epidemics broke out. In March 1945 nearly 20,000 people died either from starvation, typhus or maltreatment. One of the victims was a 15-year-old Dutch girl, Anne Frank...
...hours later, another patrol, headed by Lieut. William Robertson, reached the town of Torgau, on the Elbe, and came under heavy fire from across the river. Robertson broke into a pharmacy, liberated a bed sheet, some ink and Mercurochrome, and painted a crude U.S. flag. He climbed the tower of the town castle and hung his flag from the parapet. "Tovarish!" he shouted. "Amerikansky...
Security was also lax inside the company, Boyce stated. He broke the seals on code books and photographed them; the tampering was noticed but ignored. Clerks in TRW's "black vault," where National Security Agency codes were stored, "used the code-destruction blender for making banana daiquiris and mai tais...
...being a police spy. The crowd had seized him, set his car afire and was trying to hurl him into the flames. Bishop Tutu, dressed in purple vestments, pushed his way into the shouting, jostling crowd of angry youths and, as he did, the bruised and beaten man broke free and ran to him. Cried Tutu: "Why don't we use methods of which we will be proud when our liberation is attained?" After Tutu waved the crowd aside, the terrified man was taken to a hospital...