Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Germany pulled in, and eight men got out. They were reluctant wanderers, helpless victims of two mighty tyrannies, home for the first time in seven years. As P.W.s, they had been pushed around Europe and Asia, and released finally a fortnight ago from a Soviet labor camp in Kiev...
...year-old, tawny-haired farm boy. As he was driven to the village where his parents have a prosperous farm, he recalled the great Wehrmacht retreat from Russia in 1944 (when he was only 18), then the Soviet P.W. camp at Grozny in the Caucasus, next Siberia, and finally Kiev, where month after month he cracked rocks with other P.W.s and some Ukrainian women. ("If we got caught talking to the women, they simply disappeared. Those Ukrainian girls; God knows where they were sent...
...musical picture themes, interrupted by a well-known "promenade" motif, illustrate "The Great Gate of Kiev," "A Peasant's Wagon," and the "Tuileries Gardens," among others...
Former SS Colonel Paul Blobel was the first to go. Shortly after midnight, four husky MPs led him across the floodlit yard of Landsberg Prison. On the gallows platform, a U.S. Army hangman was waiting for him. Blobel (responsible for the killing of 30,000 Jews at Kiev in 1941) got 90 seconds for his last words. Thrusting out his spade-bearded chin, he cried: "I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies...
...Krinsky, f 0 0 0 Steiner, f 2 1 5 Gremp, f 5 2 12 Phillips, f 0 0 0 Blodnick, c 3 3 9 Culver, c 0 0 0 Dennis, g 9 3 21 Perente, g 1 0 2 Condon, g 4 1 9 Kiev, g 1 0 2 Totals...