Word: buchenwalde
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...Into the Buchenwald barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat...
...Different. The reaction was predictable. Concentration Camp Historian Olga Wormser angrily pointed out that non-Jews had also been forced by the Nazis to collaborate with their murderers. French Writer David Rousset, a non-Jew who survived Buchenwald and other camps, assailed Treblinka for "abounding in racist formulas. In fact, it (racism) is his central point of view." Others noted that the inmates of the Nazi death camps were usually too weak, too demoralized and too quickly put to death to have much chance of forming revolts. Besides, the Jews were no different from...
What nobody will question is that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers. What few will accept is the mawkishly pro-Semitic suspense novel in which Meyer Levin (Compulsion; The Fanatic) fiddles with these familiar themes...
Obviously none of these antagonisms are unique to Asia. For centuries, the West's highly advanced nations have fought the world's most disastrous wars, even before the Bomb, and any sense of European superiority must be badly shaken by the memory of Buchenwald. Yet since World War II, the peoples of Europe, for all their lingering animosities, have begun to develop more of a common loyalty to the whole region and idea of Europe. Moreover, adds Harvard Sinologist Professor Benjamin Schwartz, "The West has achieved the modern secular state, and its machinery does tend to control internal...
Recruited by an Israeli agent, Hüttenmeister became convinced that he could somehow make amends for Auschwitz and Buchenwald by helping Israel protect itself against Egyptian plots and plans. After training in cryptography and other techniques in an Israeli-operated spy school in Paris, Hüttenmeister flew to Cairo with instructions to pick up a capsule of microfilm from a Sudanese clerk named Ismail Sabri and smuggle it out of Egypt. The neophyte spy had no sooner taken the film than he was arrested by Egyptian security agents...