Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East Germany. Seven U.S. Army artillery officers and two Army helicopter crewmen, kidnaped by the Russians and the East German satellite state when their helicopter came down in East Germany June 7, were produced by the Communists for a surprise press conference in Dresden. On hand at the conference: a crowd of Communist newsmen and one lone Westerner, Associated Press Reporter Seymour Topping (see PRESS). Presumably the Communists hoped that by showing off U.S. servicemen in captivity they could prod the U.S. public into prodding the U.S. Government to pay a high soldiers' ransom. The ransom, openly demanded through...
There the families stayed while Tito led his guest off to the Bosnian Mountains to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the climactic battle between Tito's partisans and the German invaders in World War II. It was the two dictators' fourth meeting. The 40-year-old Nasser is obviously much impressed by the 66-year-old marshal, who so skillfully plays a fancy in-between role in the cold war, gaining alternately from both sides...
Battle Hymn. High among the wild, beech-clad uplands, not far from the cave where a German bomb wounded Tito in 1943, the old campaigner of the Balkan Mountains and the younger conspirator of the Cairo barracks spent the night together in an army tent. Tito regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through...
Gerhard Martin Sommer, the man in the wheelchair, had indeed been at Buchenwald-but not as a prisoner. As the master of the punishment cellblock between 1938 and 1943, Sommer was the broad-shouldered bullyboy who, in the words of West German Prosecutor Helmut Paulik, perpetrated "probably the most hideous group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi...
Last week the three-man court and six-man jury in Bayreuth found Sommer guilty of murder, dealt to the master of punishment the maximum punishment permitted under West German law: life imprisonment. To the end Sommer was impassive. But when one German, looking at the cripple in the wheelchair, said, "You have already paid for your bestialities," Sommer wept gratefully in pity-for himself...