Word: hlberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women were survivors of Eastern Germany's concentration camps. Released by the Russians as a propaganda gesture, they were the last of some 200,000 political prisoners whom the Russians had interned since the end of the war in the infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General Vasily Chuikov announced that...
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