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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When all other German prison camps are forgotten the name of Dachau will still be infamous. It was the first concentration camp set up for Hitler, and its mere name was a whispered word of terror through all Germany from the earliest days of Nazi control. It was one of the largest of the camps to which opponents of Naziism were sent. And here, too, was concentrated the flower of Nazi sadists whose business was torture and death. Last week the U.S. Seventh Army entered Dachau and liberated 32,000 of its still living inmates. With them went TIME Correspondent...
...losses at the beginning of the Okinawa campaign, the Japs still spent planes and pilots recklessly, throwing everything in their air book at the Americans. Observers counted more than 15 types of aircraft in the buzzing swarms, even the slow, clumsy "Mary" bombers that had been obsolete since the earliest days...
Liberals, with little to lose, scornfully rejected the "caretaker coalition" proposition. Labor, with a bigger stake in the Government, wanted to think it over first. But time was short: clearly the Conservatives were bent on the earliest possible Win-with-Winnie campaign...
Coach Mikkola had commented previously that last Monday's practice session on the cinders, which followed a week of cross country conditioning on the riverbank course, was the earliest spring workout in years...
...Author supplies readers of his Carnival with an illuminating biographical sketch, My Fifty Years with James Thurber (he is 49, "but the publishers felt that 'fifty' would sound more effective"). "Not a great deal," says the autobiographer, "is known about his earliest years, beyond the fact that he could walk when he was four." After several years of newspaper work, he turned up on the New Yorker in the late '203-starting out, according to New Yorker custom, as managing editor. He edited so unmanageably and wrote so well that he was soon made writer...