Word: crematoriums
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...heard about a young Polish girl who had refused to undress for a shower. The degenerate, sadistic Mussfelt who ran the crematorium ordered her shoved into the furnace alive. Her hair burned quick and bright. Then she crisped up like bacon on an over-hot skillet...
...crematorium might have been a big bakeshop or a very small blast furnace. Here the Nazis carted the bodies, straight from the gas chambers. They cut them up scientifically. They put the chunks on iron stretchers, slid them on rollers into the five greedy mouths of the coke-fed ovens. They could disintegrate 1,900 people a day. "There was great economy," said Kudriavtsev. "These furnaces also heated the water for the camp...
...Biggest Crematorium. "In the center of the camp stands a huge stone building with a factory chimney-the world's biggest crematorium. The Germans attempted to burn it but most of it still stands-a grim monument to the Third Reich...
Heartbreak House. Last week, with George Bernard Shaw sitting by her bedside at their home in Whitehall Court, London, death came to Charlotte Shaw. Three days later she was cremated at Golder's Green crematorium, with Shaw, his secretary and Lady Astor the only attendants. At the funeral of Mrs. H. G. Wells, 16 years before, Shaw had told Wells to enter the furnace room. "It's beautiful," he said. "I saw my mother burnt there. You'll be glad if you go." Wells went and returned to say: "It was indeed very beautiful...
...Japanese and purporting to show General Jonathan Wainwright surrendering at Corregidor to General Masaharu Homma, Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Homma is dead. In March Corregidor had word that a Jap general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command previously held by Homma...