Word: dachau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World War II, Marcus went back to the Army, won the Distinguished Service Medal for staff work. He was one of the first Americans to get a look at Dachau, where the Nazis had slaughtered thousands of his fellow Jews. Said he: "It made me fiercely interested in a Jewish state . . . where the Jews would not be a minority...
Three years ago Père Riquet preached to his first large Paris audience, dressed in the faded, striped prison uniform of Dachau (where he was sent for helping U.S. and British flyers escape from France). So great was his success that he was appointed prédicateur (preacher) at Notre Dame. Since then, half of Paris has come to hear him-including Communist Chieftains Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, as well as middle-road Premier Schuman...
...strutting führer of the German-American Bund, of his Madison Square Garden meetings, where the Stars & Stripes and the swastika were bracketed, of his arrest and deportation. One day last week Fritz made news again, but there was nobody around for pictures. He escaped from the Dachau internment camp where he had been awaiting a denazification trial. At week's end, police were still looking...
Through the years of his U.S. heyday, Fritz Kuhn's plodding passion for Adolf Hitler was alloyed by a peripatetic passion for women. Four days after his Dachau escape, a 32-year-old waitress popped up with an old refrain. "Fritz is a very affectionate man," blonde Hedwig Munz told newsmen, "and we will be married as soon as all this trouble is straightened out." And Mrs. Kuhn? She was still the same patient Hausfrau who had stood by Kuhn through all his adventures. Said she: "How can she expect to marry my husband when he still is married...
Last week at the Dachau trial of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Mussolini's rescuer, the important witness Dietrich was temporarily excused by special agreement between opposing counsel. Reason: he was urgently needed to supervise the harvest at Landsberg prison, where he is now a life-termer and the indispensable head-gardener...