Word: koch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koch: "My father was a German...
...their past and have the apathy of the doomed. But once in a while the bravado of a political prisoner creates drama. From Rome, TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch...
...Koch had once said: "Whenever I meet anyone, I prepare the look I am going to give him. Seems silly, does it? You'd be surprised how big strong men shuffle in their shoes, look down and feel at a dis advantage by a timely steeling of my eyes. Then if my eyes softened, they softened too and out came their story...
There are whole volumes on this subject." But this morning, when Koch saw across the room the black-clad figures of three widows of men he had tortured and sent to death, he suddenly became absorbed in studying a fresco of Sapienza (Wisdom) on the ceiling...
Stern Judges. The judges entered. Four were regular magistrates with stern expressions ; five were representatives of left-wing parties. Koch was called to the bar by the president. He might have been walking into a cafe. The glance he cast at the judges might be meant for a bar tender. He merely nodded curtly in answer to the judge's questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting...