Word: buchenwalde
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Many a U.S. crooner, what with wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth, sings like a man who learned his style in a concentration camp. Robert Clary actually did. He spent three years in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. and whiled away some of the time by singing for his fellow prisoners...
...sensible enough fellow. He was born in Paris in 1926, the son of a piecework tailor. In 1942, when Robert was 16, he and his parents and one of his sisters were deported to Germany as Jews, and sent to Auschwitz. Robert alone survived, and later was transferred to Buchenwald. There, with half a dozen other Frenchmen, he began to give a little show. "I was very young," Robert recalls, "and, really, I did not understand." Nevertheless, he says, "I learned about life in there. I learned that all kinds of people are the same. Everybody just has to-come...
...brought its own jumbled emotions. Many Frenchmen, spoiling for a victory on the field, winced at the sound of German cheers, mild though they were. One spectator, a concentration camp survivor, stood through the entire game, eying the visitors in silent hatred, a vengeful symbol in his old striped Buchenwald uniform. Another Frenchman, watching his jittery, overanxious team missing wild shots at the goal during the first half, wept uncontrollably...
After the Nazis seized his father's business in 1934, Auerbach had fled the country, but in 1940 the Vichy French turned him over to the Gestapo. Auerbach was sent from one concentration camp to another, finally to Buchenwald. His school knowledge of chemistry saved him from the gas chambers: he became the prison pest exterminator. The prisoners called him Herr Doktor. He survived, but the Nazis killed 21 of his relatives...
...today than promise a proletarian heaven in 1984. Starting 39 years ago as a Socialist councilman in The Hague, Drees ascended the ladder to power, reform by reform-always carefully administered, of course, and with a thrifty eye on the budget. In World War II, Drees was imprisoned in Buchenwald for a year, then served as a member of the underground directorate which the Dutch, with stolid inspiration, called the Board of Reliable...