Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dachau concentration camp's "last remaining incinerator of original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a can and dumped on a trash heap. No epitaph was written, but one was deserved: "He Was the Life & Soul of the Party...
...Warsaw Ghetto; Paul Blobel, Werner Braune, Otto Ohlendorf and Erich Naumann had supervised the murder of 2,000,000 people, mostly Jews, gypsies and Communist-suspects, in the conquered lands of Eastern Europe; Hans Schmidt was adjutant of Buchenwald; Georg Schallermair had run the mass murder machine at Dachau. They were the most wretched specimens of 28 Nazis condemned by a U.S. war crimes court in 1946 and 1947. The 21 others had been reprieved by U.S. authorities...
...world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...
...School of Journalism, she landed her first Trib job as a campus correspondent, was taken on full time when she finished Columbia in 1942. She was sent to the London bureau in 1944, got to Germany in time to cover the closing battles of World War II. At the Dachau concentration camp, while some correspondents dodged SS bullets, she and another correspondent jeeped blithely past and were the first reporters inside the central enclosure (an SS officer tried to surrender...
...Dachau . . . Mühldorf...