Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark forest of pines 18 miles outside Berlin stands the concentration camp known as Sachsenhausen. For ten Nazi years its concrete walls, topped by electrified barbed wire and watchtowers snouted with machine guns, had shut in a total of 200,000 prisoners, of whom half died...
Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol...
...Fascistes. . . ." On the curb, propped up against the wall, sat a dark woman; her dress had been torn off, and her naked left breast had been blackened by blows. Her hair fell over her shoulders, and she was sobbing heartrendingly. Her name was Lise Ricol, and she is a prominent member of the Communist "Union des Femmes Françaises...
André Gide had adapted the dialogue for Franz Kafka's dark parable, The Trial, with painstaking exactness ("I effaced myself"). To convey the uncanny mood of Kafka's story (about a man tried for an unnamed crime and eventually executed by the officers of an unnamed court), Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise) had staged it with imagination...
...dark side of the ledger was an announcement by the doctors that Bob Kennedy, wingman who has been the hard-luck recipient of recurring injuries this season, will be out for the rest of the year. Second-line tackles Rocky Stone and Doug Bradlee were also listed as out for the Princeton tussle...