Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
...Shoot a Prisoner." Similar cynicism had long echoed in the U.S. among civilians and G.I.s alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were...
...partial justification for Lichfield's "get-tough" policy, Army apologists had pointed out that many of the prisoners were combat dodgers. At a time when the need for replacements in Europe was critical, the best way to get them back to duty was to make the guardhouse so tough that they would prefer the front lines. But many of the 6,000 prisoners who passed through Lichfield's stockade were minor offenders-AWOLs by only a few hours...
Also convicted in Bad Nauheim last week was Lichfield prosecution witness Fred C. Moore, a Negro private. For pummeling a German civilian who, he said, was caught rifling his billet, Private Moore was fined $180, sentenced to six months at hard labor...
Note and compare: Lieut. Cubage of Lichfield fame is to undergo the embarrassment of a reprimand plus a $250 fine [TIME, June 24]; Sergeant Smith-three years' hard labor and dishonorable discharge...