Word: maidanek
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Between the Nazis and their victims was this difference (among others): those who suffered at Dachau and Belsen and Maidanek may have dreamed of vengeance against the individual Nazis who tortured them, but would not have planned the mass retaliation that has befallen millions of Germans, including children. No one, in fact, wished it; the misery that drags along the roads of Europe today is beneath premeditation, beyond mere vengeance...
Heinrich Himmler's last journey was different. Before, wherever he had travelled, death followed him like a shadow-and the shadow fell on many, at Maidanek. Oswiecim, Buchenwald. "You find people there," he once said of his concentration camps, "with hydrocephalus, cross-eyed and deformed ones . . . a lot of cheap trash . . . the prisoners are made up of slave souls...
...What is Buchenwald? It is Maidanek, but in miniature...
Last week one of the 100,000 came home. He was an obscure Breton named Corentin Le Du. The Germans had arrested him two years ago, shipped him to notorious Maidanek. After releasing him, the Russians rushed him to Moscow. Then they sent him by special plane to Paris. Frenchmen, puzzled by this exclusive treatment, soon discovered the reason: Corentin Le Du is a French Communist. He brought a message...