Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of us who grew up during the Nazi occupation of Poland, names like Auschwitz and Dachau, though horrible enough, were very distant; to the children of the same generation in Poland, they were a close and terrifying reality...
Nazis kept the 259 paintings in the Führer-bau of Munich for the sole reason of pleasing Hitler whenever he visited the city. When the end came, and the SS guards had fled . . . the people from the neighborhood, joined by D.P.s and liberated inmates of the Dachau camp, stormed the party buildings in search of scarce items. When all the food and liquor, and much of the furniture, had been carted off, they broke into the air-raid cellars where the paintings were stored, climbing over stacks of Panzerfaust grenades...
With a tall, gold and scarlet jeweled mitre on his head, a white and gold stole over his shoulders and a silver and gold crozier in his hand, the stocky little 60-year-old prelate, survivor of the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp, mounted the pulpit and turned to face his congregation...
...Brotherly Love. Most of the shooting warfare in 1984 is carried on by specialists in the remote borderlands of the superstates or around the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. Nonetheless, London life is inexpressibly vile-a combination of super-Crippsian austerity and Dachau terrorism. To fall in love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired...
Well aware of what had happened to Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran nevertheless decided to talk back. In a circular letter made public last week, Josef Beran, veteran of Dachau, charged that the government was silencing the Catholic press, that church collections had been prohibited in many places, and that church schools were being "liquidated step by step." Said the archbishop: "The Catholic Church should enjoy the absolute freedom to which it has a right, both God-given and guaranteed by the existing Constitution...