Word: nordhausen
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...have rendered a great public service in obtaining from your correspondents such vivid and unforgettable descriptions of seemingly indescribable conditions at Buchenwald, Belsen, Erla and Nordhausen. . . . May I add a reference to a leaflet which the Germans widely distributed among our armed forces as they were advancing from the West? This leaflet was entitled Brain Splitters for Suckers Only. On the second page of the leaflet appears this question: "And have you talked to an eye witness of German atrocities?" Your article is an answer to that question. On the second page of the leaflet they add this observation...
...series of concentration camps for political prisoners from most of the nations the Nazis had conquered, including the German nation. For 12 years the enemies of totalitarianism had told the world of these horrors. They were past belief. But the evidence of the camps at Buchenwald, Belsen, Erla and Nordhausen was as irrefutable as death, as monstrous as human degradation. From three camps, TIME & LIFE correspondents described these horrors...
Some Still Breathed. In a concentration camp in Nordhausen-for foreign political prisoners-U.S. troops found 3,000 loglike bodies stacked in an acre of ground. Most were dead, but among them lay men who still breathed. G.I.s who had fought across Europe stared incredulously. A brigadier general turned away...