Word: dachau
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...four years ago, in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
...fire-eating, conscienceless nationalist speaks shrilly from the past. Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms...
...fell into Allied hands. Among them were two SS bigwigs, General Josef ("Sepp") Dietrich, commander of the 6th Armored Division, and Colonel Joachim Peiper of the ist Armored Regiment (known as "Peiper's Task Force"). But most were youngsters whom Dietrich and Peiper had commanded. In 1946, in Dachau, 73 Germans were brought to trial for the Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta lawyer named Willis Meade Everett Jr., had discovered facts which turned...
...three years the victor nations have been trying war criminals. No central agency of any government has an exact record of all the cases, convictions and sentences. The following tabulation is probably fairly accurate. It includes the major German cases at Niirnberg and the "minor"* cases at Dachau; the major Japanese cases at Tokyo (TIME, Nov. 22) and other cases at Yokohama and in China; other cases in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...
Skorzeny surrendered to U.S. troops at Salzburg, in 1945. Since then, he had been in prison, first at Dachau, then at Darmstadt. His war-crimes trial, on charges of torturing U.S. prisoners, resulted in acquittal; but he was held in custody because a denazification court had not yet gotten around to his case. Last week he escaped. Somewhere in Germany, Otto Skorzeny had gone underground...