Word: margret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was a cold, painstaking case history of six German women, taken to Russia in 1945, who were released last summer and made their way to the British zone of Germany. They were Ida and Elli, both 21; Hanna, 24; Margret, 26; Agnes, 32 and Emma, 37. Cambridge University's Dr. Reginald Dean, engaged in nutrition research in Wuppertal, took down their stories. Excerpts...
...Kaputt. "Shortly after the [Russian] occupation Elli, Hanna and Margret were visited by [Red army] soldiers, who told them to go away with them immediately for three days' work ... Agnes would have been taken in the same way, but the Russians who came for her were apparently unnerved by the screams of the children who saw her going. Next day, however . . . she was arrested...
...Agnes was put to work in a lime kiln . . . Ida and Margret . . . worked in a peat field . . . Elli worked in a coal mine . . . Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...
...Naomi-Margret Sevetson was not original in her ideas when she told you that "men are beasts" [TIME, June 24]. What would be original would be an explanation as to why women are willing-sometimes anxious-to attach themselves to such beasts. The obvious reply from many female breasts, would be: "Because women are such fools...
...NAOMI-MARGRET SEVETSON...