Word: landsberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock on a foggy morning last week, the door of Landsberg Prison, where the U.S. holds some 500 German war criminals, swung open. Out came 29 men in rough-fitting ski pants, blue or grey jackets, no ties. They blinked at the waiting crowds. Berthold Krupp rushed up to older brother Alfried, heir to the bomb-shattered steel and munitions empire (only branch producing: the locomotive works), thrust a bouquet of daffodils and tulips into his hands. The two rode off in a black sedan to a champagne breakfast at Landsberg's best hotel...
This time Ilse was being tried by her own countrymen, who grabbed her when the U.S. set her free from Landsberg prison last year. Ilse had served four years for crimes against allied inmates, got out when an Army review board concluded that although she "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, "there was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...
Scarcely had the prison doors closed on the last German war criminal to be convicted by the Allies (TIME, Dec. 26) when they opened again for the first batch to be paroled. A few days before Christmas, 54 second-string war criminals were released from Landsberg, the gloomy fortress prison where 25 years ago Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf; their sentences did not expire until next year, but U.S. authorities cut them short for "good behavior...