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...grisliest petty tyrants in history were in all likelihood the men and women who ran Germany's infamous concentration and extermination camps for the greater glory of Hitler's Nazi Reich. Within three years after V-E day, 91 of them were tried for a deluge of crimes-in some cases up to 1,000 murders apiece -and then were hanged in the courtyard of Lower Saxony's yellow-walled Hameln prison. They were buried on the spot in plain coffins in a common unmarked grave. Most were ex-warders from nightmarish Belsen, including suet-faced...
...first year of World War II, but the story of the Soviet rape of the Baltic states has never been fully and publicly told. Wisconsin's Republican Representative Charles Kersten, chairman of a special House investigating committee, last week began putting on the record one of the grisliest stories of this grisly century...
...much, Withers," says one schoolboy to another in Seaton's Aunt, one of the grisliest of the Tales, "but you know all the same." "Know what?" "Why, that they're there." "Who's there?" "Why, in the house. It swarms with 'em." By the end of the story the reader is likely to agree, without ever having been told just what...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
...business of running the submarine gamut was full of terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...