Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soft Skin. A witness faced the prisoners. He was Dr. Franz Blaha, a Czech surgeon-whose wrist tendons had been cut at Dachau so that he might never practice again. Said Blaha: "Orders frequently were received at Dachau for skulls. Teeth counted a great deal. ... It was dangerous to have a soft, fine skin or good teeth. . . . Soft human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched...
When Hitler came, Figl, who opposed Anschluss, obscurely and honorably disappeared into concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...Repentance Day services, pastors underlined the guilt of the German Protestant church itself. Said Dachau's No. 1 ex-prisoner, famous Pastor Martin Niemöller...
...church did not win, it failed, and is still failing because it maintains that though the world all around it is being judged, the church is above criticism. We Protestants must repent, we did badly. There were only 45 Protestant pastors in Dachau concentration camp as opposed to 450 Catholic priests...
...method was hardly original - nor even "Aryan." Aged King David (Kings 1: 1:1-4) was thus warmed by Abishag, a fair young virgin Shunammite, when his body "gat no heatt; But the experiment had been no more successful in Jerusalem than it was in Dachau...