Word: hau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barbed wire, a Jeep arrives containing one dead soldier and five live ones, who almost casually share the vehicle with the corpse. On a canal bank in Chuong Thien province, the body of a Communist guerrilla sprawls among the water lilies. On a track through a swamp in Hau Nghia province, a young Vietnamese rifleman happily plucks a duck for supper, white feathers sticking to his mud-spattered battle dress. At an isolated Special Forces post near the Laotian frontier, a supply helicopter arrives carrying, in a sling under its belly, two bewildered cows...
Abteilung 10 was founded on the principle that deformed babies should not spend their lives in institutions. Collecting the children in "Thalidomide Towns," a frequently heard proposal, has also been rejected. "Such a town," says Dr. Hau-berg, "would be like a leper colony. Seclusion of deformed victims could not help appearing to them as expulsion from society. Psychologically it would be extremely dangerous...