Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty years ago he was the secretary of a Lower Austrian farm party, and made it into a center of anti-Nazi activity. The day after Anschluss, the Gestapo arrested Figl, threw him into Dachau. Ha was released during the war, but resumed politicking, was rearrested and was on trial for his life the day the Red army came...
Poldi, Freddi. Figl rose to leadership in postwar Austria. His strength of character had been developed in Dachau and the underground, and his anti-Communism appealed to the Austrians-who have not yet forgotten the first week of the Red army rapine, when women lay shivering on Vienna's steep roofs, hoping that the Russian soldiers would be too lazy to climb all the way up. He once told a Russian: "You can put me in jail if you want to; I was there for six years, and I'm not afraid to go back...
...Alexander, a one-time Medical School instructor, has spent three months trying to persuade government authorities to fire Schreiber from his job at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine in view of his record as a supervisor of "experiments" at Buchenwald, Dachau, and other concentration camps during World War Two. Last week, the Boston Physicians' Forum endorsed Dr. Alexander's request in a letter to President Truman, and Senator Leverett D. Saltonstall '14 of Massachusetts said he would be glad to investigate the matter as soon as he learned all the details of the case...
...campaign by an ex-Medical School instructor to oust one of the top Nazi medical "experimenters" at Dachau and Buchenwald from his present job with the Air Force has received the encouragement of Massachusetts Senator Leverett D. Saltonstall '14, the CRIMSON learned last night...
ries hard to write about something he knows only from the distance. A U.S. citizen now (he quit Germany in 1933), he had a look at what remains of Dachau and other concentration camps on a trip last year. But he has had to imagine his camp, Mellern, under the Nazis. Instead of the eyewitness experience that served him so well in All Quiet and The Road Back, he has delved into official reports and the eyewitness accounts of others. To suffer imaginatively the experience of the victims and mold it into a novel would require a modern Dostoevsky. Novelist...