Word: buchenwalde
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...Paris to Buchenwald. Dassault, the son of a Paris physician, studied at France's top technical schools. He sold his first propeller design to the War Ministry, and set up a small aircraft factory. Even after France nationalized its aviation industry in 1936, he was permitted to keep a small plant at Saint-Cloud, where he turned out variable-pitch propellers until France fell in World War II. Because he was a Jew and refused to make aircraft parts for the Nazis, he was arrested and eventually taken to Buchenwald...
...slave camps and the liquidation squads keep ripe old age rare. For the rest, the young are the dictator's ideal dupes with their "excess of energy," their "lack of attachments, their impulse toward sacrifice, their ignorance." They become the zealots; the majority of SS men who ran Buchenwald in 1938 were between the ages...
...married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...
...Assistant Judge Advocate General, is a World War I hero (he won the Military Cross three times) who served as senior legal adviser at the British army's war crimes trials. Ever since, Russell has been convinced that the West is too quickly forgetting Belsen and Buchenwald. In 1951 Russell was sacked from his post as Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine after he and Lady Russell tried to drive their car through a procession of German villagers, and got manhandled in the attempt. Shortly afterwards Lord Russell started work on The Scourge...
...trapped by a Gestapo decoy less than a year later, and he was out of the war for good. The Gestapo beat him "rudely," as he put it, on seven different occasions ("I succeeded in not talking"); they condemned him to death and finally shipped him off to Buchenwald. While many of his brother-officers were making their names in North Africa, Italy and the Vosges, Cogny was slaving in German road gangs, his head shaven, his weight down from 200 to 135, his striped camp uniform in tatters. Cogny had to take his glory in bitter fragments: he once...