Word: chuikov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 15,038 of the remaining 29,632 internees would be freed, and the camps closed. Of the others, 13,945 would go into regular East German prisons. The Russians are keeping 649 "criminals...