Word: dachau
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...years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...
When the U.S. Army came, two years later, Father Roth was still alive. But 5,000 of his fellow prisoners were too ill with typhus to leave, and Father Roth stayed on at Dachau to minister to them. Later his enemies were moved in-25,000 SS war prisoners. Ex-Prisoner Roth stayed...
...Today, Dachau is filled with Nazis awaiting trial as war criminals, and anti-Nazi Father Roth is still among them, searching for their families, requesting leaves for those sentenced to death, doing everything in his power to make their lives more tolerable...
Friendly, 42-year-old Domkapitular Roth holds regular services in Dachau's 1,500-seat Catholic church, which was built by volunteer SS prisoners and is equipped with an organ whose pipes are made of U.S. Army tin cans. Says Father Roth...
...Martin Niemöller's speech-making tour of the U.S. officially ended last week. Before 2,600 students and others at Yale's Woolsey Hall, Dachau's most publicized prisoner raised his rich voice and pounded the lectern with his thin hands...