Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sculptor, a wistful, wiry Neapolitan whose lifelong preoccupation with the grotesque and the macabre led critics to think of him as a 20th century Goya, produced a savage, semi-abstract body of work illustrating grim themes classic and modern, from Dante's Inferno and the Crucifixion to Dachau and Buchenwald; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...cheerful Josef Beran a tough opponent. Son of a schoolteacher, he served 15 years as a parish priest before becoming a teacher at Prague's Charles University in 1927. Beran was arrested by the Nazis in 1942, spent nearly three years at the notorious Dachau concentration camp. Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Prague...
...loyalty to the new regime, and eventually was put under house arrest. One day in 1949 Justice Minister Alexei Cepicka visited the archiepiscopal palace, hoping to bully him into submission. In answer, Beran went to a closet, picked up a bundle of ragged clothes that he had worn at Dachau, said "Let's go." He was hustled out of public view to imprisonment in a series of well-guarded country villas...
What is a young man to do today if he has a genuine urge to become a bum? The modern world is tougher on the vagrant than all previous civilizations. Hitler herded Europe's gypsies into Dachau and Buchenwald along with the Jews; the Soviets liquidated the bez-prizornye; the Welfare State frowns on the free-roving tramp; the American hobo has nearly died out, and even the Australian swagman, so mournfully celebrated in the national song, has become almost extinct...
Revealing Sign. Inevitably, there have been disappointments. About 10% of the refugees still live in substandard housing, including 700 Silesian and Sudeten Germans whose flowerpots and television antennas eerily sprout from the reconverted barracks at Dachau. Many still feel that they are worse off now than they were in their old homes. Only one out of six farmers tills his own land; when he does, it is on a much smaller plot than he owned in the East...