Word: grayness
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...much of Bergen-Belsen remains today. A 25-meter-high gray stone obelisk marks the site, rising above it like a baleful warning. Inscribed on its side is a singular commandment: EARTH CONCEAL NOT THE BLOOD SHED ON THEE! Fourteen long, low mounds of mass graves are marked simply, starkly: HERE LIE BURIED 1,000 BODIES; HERE LIE 2,500 BODIES. In 1975, then Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin walked among the neatly tended graves of Bergen-Belsen and remarked bitterly, "It is so green that it is making me angry...
...entirely underground, in a hidden mausoleum known as the Führerbunker. Dug in next to the Reich Chancellery in central Berlin, the bunker was nearly 60 ft. below street level; its earth-covered roof was 16 ft. thick (but leaky). It had 30 rooms, their concrete walls painted battleship gray. A staff of about 500 came and went. Here the Führer ate, slept, gave orders, shouted, raged. "Hitler never saw another sunrise or sunset after January," said an aide...
...daily injections of vitamins, hormones and morphine. Recalls Ernst-Günther Schenck, now 81, a physician who was in the bunker to the end: "He looked like a man carrying a mountain on his shoulders. He was hunched, drawn into himself like a turtle. His face was a mask, gray and yellow. His glaring eyes were bloodshot, with large dark pouches from lack of sleep. His left hand, holding his glasses, kept trembling and banging against a table. He pressed his left thigh against the table to suppress the twitching...
...until the next day, on a chilly gray morning that happened to be Truman's 61st birthday, did the new President go on the radio and read his formal proclamation: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help...
High Court Judge Charles Gray, who presided over the libel case, wrote in his decision that Irving had “persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence...is anti-Semitic and racist and that he associates with right wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism...