Word: buchenwalde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buchenwald had taught Mayor Doinel of Brunoy that "there are no good Germans." For five months he had blocked the marriage of his fellow townsman, swart Achille Nicolo, who had also returned from German captivity, with a German bride-to-be. But the Mayor could carry obstruction no further. The papers of the couple were in perfect order. The Department Subprefect had warned him that he must perform the ceremony...
...Mayor's door opened. The bridegroom's face turned ashen, the bride's fists clenched. M. Doinel was wearing his baggy Buchenwald uniform, black-&-white stripes with a red triangle numbered 78633. Slowly he read the service. . . . "Will you take for your husband. . . . Will you take for your wife. . . ." Slowly they answered...
Familiarity with the eager German wom en, the fresh-faced German young, bred forgetfulness of Belsen and Buchenwald and Oswieczim. The bodies were buried; the memory was all but buried. Even at the trial of Belsen's "beast," Josef Kr#228;mer and his staff, the evoked horror was stale...
...United States of America has this day become the new master of brutality, infamy, atrocity. Bataan, Buchenwald, Dachau, Coventry, Lidice were tea parties compared with the horror which we, the people of the United States of America, have dumped on the world in the form of atomic energy bombs. No peacetime applications of this Frankenstein monster can ever erase the crime we have committed. We have paved the way for the obliteration of our globe. It is no democracy where such an outrage can be committed without our consent...
...Cover) At last the victors met the German people. Not the Nazi Party, not the horror-masters of Buchenwald and Dachau, not the General Staff and the Wehrmacht, not Krupp's and I. G. Farbenindustrie, but the people, from whom all the evil and the vigor sprang...