Word: dachau
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SIMPLY BAD IDEA Pugilism in Punjab Ow! in Dachau...
DIED. "BROTHER" THEODORE GOTTLEIB, 94, deadpan performer of what he called "stand-up tragedy"; in Manhattan. In wartime Europe, Gottleib was carted to Dachau but used his family's money to buy his freedom from the Nazis and was assisted to California by Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...
...coach ordered at gunpoint to lead his captors to more Israeli athletes who bypasses the apartment housing the track athletes, calculating that the weightlifters and wrestlers would stand a better chance of overpowering their assailants. Our hearts are with these Israeli athletes - who we've seen laying wreaths at Dachau only minutes earlier - whose triumphant "return" to the very cradle of Nazism has been turned into a nightmare...
...than surrender; the frozen bodies of American G.I.s massacred by German SS in the Ardennes Forest; the beaten carcass of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging by his heels in a square in Milan; and, of course, the emaciated corpses of slaughtered Jews piled up like cords of wood at Dachau...