Word: dachau
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...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...
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...
...where "everyone has his own donkey," Music paints spectral quadrupeds and hilly landscapes in dusty roses, blues and ochers, almost as if he sees them through a sandstorm. Music was a more realistic painter when the Nazis arrested him in 1943 as a partisan sympathizer, later sent him to Dachau. Says he: "Perhaps the ugly things of the concentration camp have brought me toward poetry. There is more mystery...
...would-be assassin was Dov Shilanski, onetime inmate of Dachau concentration camp, later a member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. When peace came to Israel, Shilanski became a terrorist without a target. He found a humdrum job as a clerk, slid out of sight for four years. Last spring, when the hard-pressed Jewish government sat down with the hated Germans to negotiate reparations, Shilanski took up his old tools and vowed to avenge the "betrayal...
...conservative estimate," writes Arthur Koestler on an early page of his autobiography, "three out of every four people whom I knew before I was thirty were subsequently killed in Spain, or hounded to death at Dachau, or gassed at Belsen or deported to Russia, or liquidated in Russia...