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Word: dachau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not admit that the U.S. has financed Gehlen's activities (the preferred phrase is that he enjoys a "favorable relationship" with U.S. intelligence agencies). Büro Gehlen's headquarters, a clump of houses surrounded by barbed wire, is south of Munich and not far from Dachau. Outside the main offices the Stars & Stripes fly alongside the flag of West Germany. Gehlen himself stays out of sight. He is married and has four children; he loves fast cars and still has a student's fascination for tricky paraphernalia, obsolete codes and invisible inks. The only available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spy Service | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

What Noble had to tell about was Vorkuta, a name that is likely to live in infamy with Dachau and Belsen. Marchuk and Noble had been held for years in Vorkuta slave camp, and they brought out word that a handful of other Americans are still there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vorkuta | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...spying" for the Vatican. At the same time three priests who were associated with him were sentenced to 20, 15 and seven years. As a leader of resistance against the Nazis and a known friend to Christians, Jews and Communists during years as a prisoner in Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps, Trochta was long wooed by the Czech Communist regime, which hoped to turn him into a "progressive" bishop. Trochta himself had hoped to get along with the state by sticking strictly to "the things that are God's," found that under Communism, Caesar demands all things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Subversive God | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Knock on the Door. In 1940, just before Christmas, there came the ineviable knock on the door. At the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, the Nazis knocked out Grüber's front teeth. At Dachau, they threw his body on a pile of corpses after a heart attack had left him more dead than alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Man in the Middle | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Ordinary people, before & after the prisoner of Chillon's day, have had little difficulty visualizing the look of men imprisoned by oppressors. Stories and pictures-from Dachau to the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty-keep the human image fresh: men of flesh & blood, sometimes vacant-eyed and shuffling, with faces white from lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abstractions, Limited | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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