Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outspoken Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller is still in Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Last year the Gestapo put him in a cell with two Catholic priests, hoping they could convert one another to formation of a German na tional church. That failed; now Niemöller is back in solitary confinement, well treated, given any books he wants to read...
Lift Your Heads (British Ministry of Information; OWI). Because a champion German-Jewish boxer picked up a small bird and put it in his wheelbarrow in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau, his hands were tied behind his back and he was then strung up by the hands from a tree. The story of his torture, told haltingly by the boxer himself, plus shots of exactly how the Nazis went about it, are memorable moments in this short, sober British documentary. It shows how the British are helping Austrian and German antiFascists get back at Hitler...
...assassinate a democratic politician, he fled to Italy. When Hitler came into power, Eicke came home to head the SS Death's Head Brigade-the guards who tortured into pulp the minds and bodies of anti-Nazi Germans in the new concentration camps. Eicke was warden of Dachau, and there he was in his element: he meted out the most indecent punishments himself...
...Thyssen was wise enough to leave Austria for Switzerland when Germany invaded Poland. He protested the invasion, the "illegal" confiscation of his property in Germany, the fact that no cause had been assigned for the death of his sister's son-in-law in the concentration camp of Dachau. He finally wrote a letter of categorical denunciation to Adolf Hitler in which he stated, with magnificent naïveté, his "assumption that this letter shall not be withheld from the German people...
...Englishmen in his internment camp, whose release would perhaps have had less publicity value for the Germans and of course he was only in an internment camp to begin with, which is a very different thing from a concentration camp. People who get out of such concentration camps as Dachau, for instance-well in the first place not a great many of them get out and when they do, they are seldom able to broadcast...