Word: chemnitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russian zone, a man receives a notice to report at the railroad station within 48 hours; he knows he will be sent to work in the uranium mines near Chemnitz.* He packs a knapsack and is heard from no more...
...hooks were stunned with wooden mallets); 4) carted to the furnaces, 18 at a time, by incineration crews. The cremation capacity was 400 per ten-hour day. ¶ Sergeant William Sandier, a U.S. prisoner of war, saw three young Frenchwomen flogged to death at his camp near Chemnitz. SS guards thought the women, slave workers in the camp, were becoming too friendly with the Americans. One morning 250 prisoners were assembled on the prison ground. The three women were lined up before them and stripped. 55 men then lashed them with a cat-o'-nine-tails till they died...
...week's end the Ninth and First had come up to the Elbe at several points along a 150-mile stretch fronting Berlin. The First had bypassed Leipzig. The Third's left wing was in the Chemnitz-Dresden area, and its right had captured the Wagner-festival city of Bayreuth...
Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains...