Word: crematorium
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Truffaut's hero (Oskar Werner) is a member of the brigade, a pyromanic punk who sincerely believes that "books are just rubbish" and should be burned. After a hard day at the cultural crematorium, he cools off with tranquilizers, sits staring at the wall screen with his trank-tanked wife (Julie Christie), and sinks slowly into nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn...
...stones weighing as much as 50 tons overland from a quarry 20 miles away. For hundreds of years, archaeologists have probed around and under the structure in a vain attempt to understand what motivated its builders. Charred bones and artifacts convinced some that it had been a mortuary, a crematorium or even a sacrificial altar. The awesome architecture and isolated setting also suggested to others that it had been the scene of religious rites and pageants...
...sign that said: "Prisoners with temperatures of less than 100° lick once, those with temperatures higher than 100° lick twice." Another prisoner-physician, Dr. Ella Lingens, saw squirming infants, which she at first thought were bundles of old clothing, thrown alive into the fires of the crematorium after the gassed bodies of their mothers. Another ex-inmate testified tearfully that this method of killing babies was ordered by the Nazis because there was a severe shortage of gas for the adult death chambers...
...Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale in the nearly empty crematorium, as "a man who devoted his life to making a more peaceful world...
...howled that Eichmann was grabbing highly skilled Jews off the assembly lines of slave factories important to the war effort. Pale-eyed Rudolf Hoess. commandant of Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because he was receiving more human "freight" than he could conveniently kill. At Majdanek. the tall, tapering crematorium chimneys belched flame day and night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech partisans hurled a grenade at Eichmann's boss. Reinhardt Heydrich...