Word: buchenwalde
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...also been a half century of trench warfare and totalitarianism; of depression and monopoly and waste; of Hitler and war and dive bombers and Dachau and Buchenwald; and of the Bolsheviki and the dictatorship of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
Under World War II's Vichy regime, Blum was imprisoned and brought to trial. At Riom, he defended himself and the cause of French liberty so eloquently that the Nazis called off the show. Blum was transferred to Buchenwald. During his imprisonment he wrote another book, For All Mankind...
Died. Leon Blum, 77, three-time Premier of France, longtime Socialist Party leader (1924-50), wartime prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp; at his country home near Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Metropolitan Opera's general manager-elect, Rudolf Bing, which most of Rose's 350 U.S. papers printed. In it, after noting that Bing had hired Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who "entertained ... the Nazis," Rose sarcastically nominated Dr. Hjalmar Schacht as Met budget director and Frau Use Koch of Buchenwald as wardrobe mistress. The Trib's lawyers thought the Rose column smelled of libel, and the editors killed it. Miffed, Billy notified the Trib that he would not renew his contract next May. The Trib dropped him on the spot. But Billy had the last word: the New York...
...gaunt men & women were survivors of Eastern Germany's concentration camps. Released by the Russians as a propaganda gesture, they were the last of some 200,000 political prisoners whom the Russians had interned since the end of the war in the infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General Vasily Chuikov announced that...