Word: buchenwalde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirty-legged slattern in the prisoner's box squinted nervously at the six U.S. officers on the Munich dais. In staccato tones, U.S. Brigadier General Emil Kiel read her sentence: "Use Koch-life imprisonment." Justice had caught up with the redheaded, 40-year-old Witch of Buchenwald, who had prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp flogged at her pleasure and who had made gloves and lamp shades from their skins after they died of torture...
Frau Koch's husband, the former commander of Buchenwald, was long since executed in one of his own butcher chambers for mishandling Nazi party funds. For the last two years his widow has been kept in closely guarded U.S. Army prisons. Despite this, she was eight months pregnant...
...treasured collection of rare books only to those he knows share his love of antiquity. For Mr. Mueller, tall and soft-spaken, is no newcomer to bibliopoly. In Vienna, where he lived until 1939, he worked in his father's university bookstore. After eight months spent at Buchenwald, he came to American on the strength of an American passport, and worked for a while as a butler in New York. Arriving in Cambridge, he persuaded Tutin, the bookseller, to buy the failing Schoenhof's and has run it ever since as a part-owner...
Picasso is at work on a huge canvas which will never fit anyone's idea of interior decoration. Entitled The Charnel-House, it is still in the drawing stage (see cut). Says Barr: "Its figures are facts-the famished, waxen cadavers of Buchenwald, Dachau and Belsen. The fury and shrieking violence which made the agonies of Guernica tolerable are here reduced to silence. For the man, the woman and the child this picture is a Pieta without grief, an entombment without mourners, a requiem without pomp...
...hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...