Word: gardelegen
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...that, the people of Hildburghausen were relatively lucky. They had a county hospital and six rural "ambulatoriums'' (clinics). In the county of Gardelegen, not a single private practitioner was left for 55,000 people, and they had only one county hospital - understaffed because many hospital doctors have joined the exodus to the West. In Rostock, one remaining eye specialist, a 72-year-old man, keeps a ten-hour-a-day schedule. The flow of fleeing physicians has reached a flood stage of 800 or more a year, and shows no signs of subsiding. Remaining doctors, especially the relatively...
...remedial idea spread fast. In Gardelegen, where 1,100 political captives were incinerated in a straw-filled death chamber, civilians were marched in by U.S. troops and made to bury the blackened bodies. At Belsen where British forces' found cadavers piled like cordwood in a ditch, SS men were compelled at rifle point to bury bodies...
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