Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stuttgart Salesman Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick...
Died. Erich Ollenhauer, 62, chairman of West Germany's Social Democratic Party since 1952, a portly Socialist who spent twelve years in exile during the Nazi dictatorship, returned in 1946 to help rebuild the party under the leadership of fiery Kurt Schumacher, took command after Schumacher's death, and though he attempted to woo the middle-class vote, suffered resounding defeats at the hand of Konrad Adenauer in the 1953 and 1957 elections, after which he increasingly delegated leadership to younger politicians; of a lung ailment; in Bonn...
...while Nazi troops stood over him with guns, Vienna's Baron Louis de Rothschild calmly finished his lunch, dabbed his fingers in a finger bowl, smoked a cigarette, approved the next day's menu-and then was marched off to prison. A year later, after Heinrich Himmler visited his cell, his freedom was bought in return for all the assets of the Austrian branch in Austria and abroad, and Louis found refuge in Vermont; the Austrian house never revived.† After Paris was occupied, the Rothschilds were forced to sell most of their French stocks on an already...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. Day after day, prominent Negro leaders such as James Farmer of CORE, and Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, went to the White House to discuss the stalled civil rights bill and job discrimination. When Dr. Martin Luther King called, American Nazi Party members shuffled along Pennsylvania Avenue in storm-trooper outfits, carrying placards inscribed AH WANTS TO SEE DEE PRESIDENT...
Soon Aleksei takes to drink, battle-scarred and bitter because his wartime honors are withheld by Stalinist officials who cannot believe that any trustworthy Red could have survived a Nazi prison camp. He will have to fight for what is due him, says Sasha. "Against whom?" rages the former hero. "In the war, we knew who our enemies were. Who? Who is guilty? What's happening to us? Are we lying to each other? Are we splitting with the party? I am a man, dammit, and I need the truth!" At local party headquarters he tries...