Word: knauth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the camp at Buchenwald TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth reported: In Buchenwald today I saw death reduced to such a state of ordinariness that it just left me numb and feeling nothing, not even sickness at my stomach...
...plain people of Germany the future is a blank space-when they have time to think of it. Mostly they don't, since the present holds too many problems of bare existence. But last week, in flattened Frankfurt, TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth found a German civilian, ex-mayor of a nearby town, who had thought earnestly about the future. Knauth's report...
TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth saw it at Hoechst, an industrial town near Frankfort. Four men-a Communist, a trade-unionist, two Social Democrats-had scrapped their pre-Hitler political differences and were working as auxiliary police for the U.S. army...
...from Percy Knauth in Frankfurt came still another close-up report of these last days of war with Germany: "I have been in Frankfurt before, but covering it almost end to end today I found no single landmark I recognized. In these miles and miles of ruins there is nothing but dullness and apathy, a state that seems like a sleepwalking trance. The backdrop is complete destruction; the script is desertion in the face of danger. And all the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-'Frankfurt Stands Firm'-'Better Death Than Slavery'-are nothing...
...Knauth will see and report plenty of fighting in his new assignment-but war cables to TIME'S Battlefronts editors are just part of his job. He speaks fluent German, of course, with so little accent most Germans take him for a Swede-tell him things they might hesitate to hint to an American. So Knauth's main work will be with the German people. He will talk with as many of them as he can, and pass on what he hears to TIME'S editors-so that TIME can bring its readers a better understanding...