Word: lefkoff
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Major Louis Rothschild Lefkoff, a mis fit officer, was a reflection on his superiors' inertia: he had moved to new jobs and higher rank through a series of military failures. Finally found ill fitted for active command, Lefkoff was sent to Camp Van Dorn, a dreary clump of tar-paper bar racks and huts some 50 miles south of Natchez as police and prison officer...
...general prisoners in his charge - all committed on serious offenses - were a rough lot. They refused to get up for reveille, held kangaroo courts and beat up fellow inmates, threatened Lefkoff's family. Lefkoff tried punishment - taking away all privileges, making them "walk the track" with heavy packs, depriving them of their mail. When nothing seemed to work, he lost his head...
...papered room. While the major stood outside, armed with a pistol and a submachine gun, the MPs flogged the prisoners' bare back sides with weighted rubber hoses. One man had to be taken to the hospital. By night fall, the story was all over camp - and Major Lefkoff's military career had ended...
Said the court-martial: "The offense was the result of malassignment and incompetency. . . ." Louis Rothschild Lefkoff was found guilty, dismissed from the service, sentenced to a year and a day at hard labor. For his superiors, who had joined in the superannuated Army game of passing the buck - no punishment...
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