Word: buchenwalde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight years and a veteran of Dachau, had not known what went on in the horror camps, and his belated realization "shocked and shattered" him. "But," he added, "you are mistaken if you think any honest person in Germany will feel personally responsible for things like Dachau, Belsen and Buchenwald. He will feel only that he was misled into believing in a regime that was led by criminals and murderers...
Heinrich Himmler's last journey was different. Before, wherever he had travelled, death followed him like a shadow-and the shadow fell on many, at Maidanek. Oswiecim, Buchenwald. "You find people there," he once said of his concentration camps, "with hydrocephalus, cross-eyed and deformed ones . . . a lot of cheap trash . . . the prisoners are made up of slave souls...
Hungarian-born Arthur Koestler, once a Communist and still a Socialist, wears what he calls an Old School tie that is "one of the most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes...
Despite the slow seepage of horror from earlier reports, I was unprepared for your account [TIME, April 30] of the German concentration camps. Erla-the trapped, clawing, burning men; Buchenwald-the massive cordwood of the starved dead; Belsen-the small children, "too nearly dead themselves to cry," nestled against the rotting bodies of their mothers...
...have rendered a great public service in obtaining from your correspondents such vivid and unforgettable descriptions of seemingly indescribable conditions at Buchenwald, Belsen, Erla and Nordhausen. . . . May I add a reference to a leaflet which the Germans widely distributed among our armed forces as they were advancing from the West? This leaflet was entitled Brain Splitters for Suckers Only. On the second page of the leaflet appears this question: "And have you talked to an eye witness of German atrocities?" Your article is an answer to that question. On the second page of the leaflet they add this observation...