Word: limburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...
...amiable protest, for, like nearly every other Hollander, the mayor of Katwijk was in high holiday mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to a Queen and a friend. In medieval Utrecht parading clowns made boisterous sport of laughing huisvrouwen. In southern 's Hertogenbosch ragamuffin children romped through the streets in false faces...
Fuel is still scarce. Wilhelmina, like her subjects, got only half a ton of coal last winter. But production in the Limburg mines is coming back; in 1947 it should reach seven-ninths of the prewar output, and be almost normal...
Slaves & Skulls. In an insane asylum near Limburg they discovered a "murder factory" for "mercy killings." One of six in Germany, it had been set up for the disposal of unruly and overage slave laborers. Some 15,000 were gassed and cremated before nearby villagers complained of the polluted air. The next 5,000 were poisoned. SS men performed the daily executions. They celebrated their 10,000th killing, staffmen said, with a bacchanalian orgy, using the scoured skulls of victims as brandy flasks...
More sobering yet were the stories and pictures from Europe of what had happened to U.S. prisoners in Germany. The stories came from the now liberated prison camps at Bad Orb and Limburg, where U.S. soldiers, captured in the Battle of the Bulge but four months ago, were left to starve into illness and death. The pictures from Limburg (see cuts) spoke for themselves. They were stark testimony of the barbarous state into which the once correct, highly professional Wehrmacht had fallen. More than that, they were the final proof, if any was still needed, that Germany would have...