Word: dachau
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...year-old Major General Robert T. Frederick, they drove on into Aschaffenburg, where they ran into some of the nastiest opposition yet-fanatical Nazi boys, girls and old men. They smashed on into the Nazi shrine of Nurnberg, crossed the Danube, and with the 42nd liberated the prisoners of Dachau. A week before V-E day, the weary 45th marched into Munich...
...Tormentors. Edward Waiter, head of the Dachau death camp, shot himself through the heart, still lived, shot himself again through the head and died. Priests refused to touch his body...
Last week Niem&2461ler said that his defiance had cost, him four years of solitary confinement at Sachsenhausen and Dachau. But unlike most other concentration-camp prisoners, he was given permission ("without begging for it") to have books. He had read 300 volumes of English literature. His wife was allowed half-hour visits with him twice a month-always in the presence of the Gestapo...
...fifth year, the Gestapo relaxed a bit, locked him up with three Catholic priests. Last December he was permitted to hold weekly services at Dachau. During his entire imprisonment, he said, the guards treated him "correctly"-but "I can't say why I was allowed to survive." One likely reason: an ex-U-boat commander in World War I, Niem&2461ler was known to Germans as a good German...
These were not broken men, as the lesser men of Buchenwald and Dachau were broken. They were well clothed and mostly in good health. Toward the end their captors had had to curry favor with them. Most had been allowed to keep voluminous notebooks. Reynaud planned to write a book about his experience (including five months' solitary confinement at Oranienburg). Daladier intended to compose a history of World...