Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gustave, the weary French narrator, had known the SS years before in Dachau, whence he escaped to become a laborer on Frau Rehbach's farm. Gustave can look beyond frightened Willy to enjoy the Alpine spring. "There was still snow upon the summit of the Lady in White, which rose over the dark lake, dwarfing it as the cathedral tower dwarfs the rain puddle. . . ." While a detachment of U.S. troops is making a bordello out of the village inn, the SS men descend from the pine forests to seize Gustave and the Wiedemeyers...
Picasso is at work on a huge canvas which will never fit anyone's idea of interior decoration. Entitled The Charnel-House, it is still in the drawing stage (see cut). Says Barr: "Its figures are facts-the famished, waxen cadavers of Buchenwald, Dachau and Belsen. The fury and shrieking violence which made the agonies of Guernica tolerable are here reduced to silence. For the man, the woman and the child this picture is a Pieta without grief, an entombment without mourners, a requiem without pomp...
Adolf Hitler was the subject of some nasty gossip last week. Burbled the wife of Nazi Secretary of State Otto Meissner (now awaiting trial at Dachau): the Fuhrer had a son, Helmuth, by Frau Goebbels, and "I am the only survivor who knows it." It all began, she confided to newshawks, in the summer of 1934. "At that time Frau Goebbels was on bad terms with her husband.. . . Hitler visited her so regularly in her apartment that their relations were obvious. . . . They seemed lost in each other's company, especially when love songs were played. Later, their relations...
...offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...
...Witness Hans Cappelen, Norwegian, remembered how "they put a screw device on my leg so that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...