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...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...
...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...