Word: buchenwalde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied officers, probing the putrescent wound of Buchenwald, unexpectedly discovered a sound human core which promised much for the future of Germany-2,000 German prisoners who had a plan for a liberal, anti-fascist Reich...
These were not broken men, as the lesser men of Buchenwald and Dachau were broken. They were well clothed and mostly in good health. Toward the end their captors had had to curry favor with them. Most had been allowed to keep voluminous notebooks. Reynaud planned to write a book about his experience (including five months' solitary confinement at Oranienburg). Daladier intended to compose a history of World...
...because they had listened to the British radio or because their wives were coveted by SS bullies. They had spent long nights of talk and long days of comradeship with persecuted men of other nations. They were united in hatred of fascism. They had organized a strong underground within Buchenwald, so strong that at one time it had liquidated 125 SS informers...
...least one former Buchenwald prisoner was already engaged in governing post-Nazi Germany. By order of the military government, Herr Doktor X (anonymous under Allied rules) was taken from the concentration camp to become mayor of nearby Weimar. Mild, elderly Dr. X had been a Social Democrat, a secondary-school director, a "passive" anti-Nazi. His first job in Weimar was to purge minor Brown Shirts from minor municipal posts. On May Day he sought to fly the old black, gold and red flag of the Weimar Republic from his city hall. He ransacked the city, but he could find...
Flame and Floggings. With this revelation in mass murder came flesh-creeping details of other crimes from Germany's own cancerous camps. Examples: ¶ For breaches of discipline at Buchenwald prisoners were dispatched in wholesale lots. They were marched into an incinerator and there converted into bone-ash in four fast, efficient stages: 1) pushed down a 13-ft. chute to a strangling room; 2) garrotted by SS guards with a short double-end noose; 3) hung on hooks along a side wall (those who still struggled on the hooks were stunned with wooden mallets); 4) carted...