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Word: gardelegen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Awful! | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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