Word: buchenwalde
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Sitting with the Western world's chief central bankers as they weighed the gold crisis last week in Washington was a saturnine Frenchman who still bears the scars of his days as a Buchenwald prisoner. Though Pierre-Paul Schweft-zer, 55, spoke rarely, he got undivided attention when he did. As managing director of the 107-nation International Monetary Fund-which acts as an arbiter of exchange rates, guardian of fiscal good behavior among sovereign states, and rescue squad for countries in financial trouble-Schweitzer holds a pivotal role not only in the present struggle to shore...
Died. Use Koch, 61, "bitch of Buchenwald," wife of the Nazi extermination camp's commandant, who was just as bestial as the men around her; by her own hand (hanging); in Aichach women's prison, Upper Bavaria, where she was serving a life sentence...
NAKED AMONG THE WOLVES. The East Germans have made a stark and 'powerful film about a small Jewish boy who is protected from the Nazis by his fellow inmates of Buchenwald...
NAKED AMONG THE WOLVES. The story of the concentration camps has been filmed before-and with greater skill-but the theme of the indomitable prisoners bears frequent retelling. This East German tale of the inmates of Buchenwald attempting to hide a three-year-old boy from their Nazi torturers gives credence to the hope for civilization's ultimate survival...
...child comes to have significance beyond his own life. Prisoners submit to torture and death rather than reveal his constantly changing refuge. As Allied planes drone overhead, the great war outside Buchenwald is echoed by the small one inside. Men whose lusterless eyes have long since accepted defeat and early death begin again to act like people with a future. The precious burden of the boy becomes synonymous with the tomorrow none of them had ever hoped to see. Rumors run through the camp that the war is almost over. And when the Germans continue their pathological extermination of prisoners...