Word: buchenwalde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three weeks ago a congressional committee, set up to review the case of Use ("Bitch of Buchenwald") Koch, whose life sentence had been reduced to four years, concluded that the U.S. prosecution had bungled. Use could have been given a life term for any one of several proved crimes; instead, she was tried and convicted on the shaky charge of participating in the management of Buchenwald. "Our soldiers," said the committee, "are not lawyers." Use will be free next September, but a German court will then almost certainly try her for crimes against German nationals...
...little notebook, Mathilde had the names and addresses of 35 comrades in the underground. Solicitously, she accompanied her new German lover on his rounds as he picked up the 35. Most were sent to Buchenwald; only 14 ever got back to France...
...worse at Philadelphia State Hospital for Mental Diseases (Byberry): there were 6,100 patients, almost 80% more than the planned capacity of 3,400. "I was reminded of the pictures of the Nazi concentration camps at Belsen and Buchenwald ... I entered buildings swarming with naked humans herded like cattle and treated with less concern ... I saw hundreds of patients living under leaking roofs, surrounded by moldy, decaying walls, and sprawling on rotting floor for want of seats or benches...
...Koch was the redhaired, sexually psychopathic "Bitch of Buchenwald," the Nazi concentration camp where more than 50,000 died. Inmates said that Use had men flogged for the pleasure it gave her, and collected human skin, preferably tattooed, for lampshades and bookbindings. Thirty other Germans had been convicted, with her, for Buchenwald's operation. In a routine review of sentences, twelve of her co-defendants had also received sentence reductions. But Use had been the most vivid of the defendants, and she had received the review board's biggest reprieve; Use became the focus of protest. From...
...review board may have found some compelling reason for reducing Use's sentence, but if it had, Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall did not reveal it. Instead, he agreed that the evidence had proved that Use "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, but lamely justified the sentence reduction with: "There was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...