Word: buchenwald
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...Long Chance. The moment had come for President Auriol to call on 55-year-old André Marie, a veteran of Buchenwald, a member of Herriot's moderately conservative Radical Socialist Party, and a short-lived Premier (35 days) back in 1948. Said Herriot "We should show no party preoccupations. I beg of you with all my soul, think only of France...
...Munich, the crimes of Use Koch, "Bitch of Buchenwald," were still catching up with her. Already serving a life sentence for concentration-camp atrocities, she was classified a major Nazi offender by a German de-Nazification court. Her sentence: two years in a work camp and confiscation of all her property...
...Reds put him into the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which like Buchenwald was taken over from the Nazis; to this day the Reds still use both. For five years Hans Klose, along with 60,000 other prisoners in Sachsenhausen, slept on a wooden pallet 2-ft. wide (if one man in the row turned in discomfort, all had to turn). He lost his teeth and got tuberculosis. He was never tried, got no hearing, was charged with nothing. Then, on Jan. 27, 1950, the Russians abruptly told him that he was a free...
...Thomas could not precisely say that he had been a relatively safe civilian. He had, in fact, been far from safe in Buchenwald a good bit of the time, and before that he had been known to the Gestapo, under the alias of Shelley, as one of the most dangerous British agents in Europe, a kingpin in the intricate machinery of French resistance...
Before he got there, the double-dealing of the Gestapo officer was discovered, and the White Rabbit was again condemned to death. He was sent to Buchenwald with 36 other Resistance workers, for execution. For some reason, sentence was delayed. Yeo-Thomas tried to bully and bribe two of the camp's Gestapo officers into a plot to save the 21 who were still alive, but they refused to save more than three-one of the three to be Yeo-Thomas, who was to tell British Intelligence who had delivered...