Word: hildebrandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catalogue of Horrors. As a youth, Hildebrandt fought against the Nazis, spent 17 months as a prisoner...
Staffed by a few volunteers, the Kampfgruppe set up shop in Hildebrandt's home. Daily 40 to 60 visitors came to contribute their knowledge of Communist inhumanity. The Kampfgruppe released to the press detailed accounts of life and suffering in Communist concentration camps. The catalogue of horrors soon served another purpose. From inmates who were released or had escaped, Hildebrandt obtained names of people who had died or were still held in Soviet-zone prisons, tried to inform their relatives...
...Hildebrandt now has a card index of 12,000 of the estimated quarter-million men, women & children who have "disappeared" in eastern Germany since 1945. In another file he keeps 7,000 requests for information on people who have "disappeared...
Confidence & Conviction. Berlin's Western Military Government officials, who first dubbed Hildebrandt a "madman and fanatic," now call him "one of the few people around here who really does something." Communists curse the Kampfgruppe as an "Anglo-American espionage center," occasionally send their agents to try to gain Hildebrandt's confidence...
...Hildebrandt's eyes shine with confidence and conviction: "The Russians throw everyone they suspect into a concentration camp. We don't need to do that. As long as we know the enemy, we are not worried. Our side is stronger. Eventually, the Russians will see they can get nothing more from Germany but trouble. They will go. Until then, we will fight them. Not with sabotage-the Soviet system sabotages itself-but with the collection and spread of information, with passive resistance, with the 'F for Freedom.' If you are against inhumanity, you must fight...