Word: knauth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact of Buchenwald is [already] all but forgotten in this overforgetful world," laments TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth in Germany in Defeat, published last week (Knopf, $2.75). As one who knew the Nazi Reich before the war as well as in its final agony, Knauth does not want such memories to lapse. For Buchenwald is not only Germany's shame; it is every...
...Germans, says Knauth, have a proverb about logic: "If you say A, you must say B." Their concentration camps were "A ... the proposition that all men are not created equal. The B was that therefore some men are superior to others. The C was that the inferior men must be subjugated. The D was Buchenwald, and all its counterparts in Germany...
Wages of Aggression. With such earnest and embittered reflections, Knauth portrays the last spring and summer of Hitler's Germany-the wrecked cities and the ruined lives, the pathetic conquered and still-arrogant unconquered. He cannot forget the "terrible wages of aggressive...
...When Knauth and Wertenbaker left after the Potsdam conference I was sleeping on a cot in the hall, had the use of a desk, and that's about...
Occupational Semantics. Among G.I.s the word "fraternization" had acquired a meaning not included in family dictionaries. "How's fraternizing down your way?" was a standard conversational gambit. Nevertheless, many a soldier understood that the rule went beyond sex. TIME Correspondent Percival Knauth overheard two G.I.s at Wiesbaden discussing the matter in its larger aspects...