Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Evacuation Hospital, commanded by Colonel William E. Williams of Austin, Tex., has fallen the terrible task of trying to save the lives of the Buchenwald sick and starving. The hospital moved into Buchenwald April 16 and since then has been working at top speed, helped by French, German, Czech, Hungarian and other doctors among the inmates...
There were Beneses and a Masaryk-two nephews of Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes and Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, ebullient, democratic son of the late Founder-President Thomas Masaryk...
...Erla Camp, the SS guards prepared to massacre the prisoners as the U.S. Army approached. The prisoners knew what was coming, but most of them were too weak to try to escape, though a Czech, prisoner had short-circuited the electric fence. From Erla, TIME Correspondent Bill Walton reported the atrocity as pieced together 'from the stories of the few survivors...
...Living Dead. We stopped in front of one barracks and looked inside while a Czech surgeon who had been there explained that 1,500 people lived and slept there...
Another Strong Heave? All along the broad eastern front the Russians were seemingly ready for their own last strong heave. General Andrey I. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army inched in on Teschen and the Moravian Gap entry to the Czech industrial complex. There were rumblings of readiness from Marshals Ivan Konev's and Georgi Zhukov's fronts before Dresden and Berlin...