Word: oberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing in strong puffy winds in the Charles River, the Varsity sailing team placed second Monday in the greater Boston Dinghy Championships at M.I.T. Boston University led the field of six schools to capture the Oberg Trophy...
...college Oberg Trophy Regatta at MIT yesterday, another group from the sailing team placed third, trailing MIT and Boston University...
...June 1942, as Vichy France proved unable to cope with the growing resistance against the Nazi occupation. Adolf Hitler dispatched egg-bald SS General Karl Oberg to Paris with orders to get tough. Oberg did. In the next two years as head of the Nazi security police in France, Oberg and his eagle-beaked adjutant, SS Colonel Helmuth Knochen, were responsible for the execution of more than 1,000 French hostages, the execution of underground resistance fighters at Mont Valérien and at the Cascade in Paris' beautiful park, the Bois de Boulogne, the extermination of hundreds...
Arrested by the British in Germany in 1945, Oberg and Knochen languished for nine years in Paris' Santé prison until in 1954 a Paris military court sentenced them to death as war criminals. Then came four more years in prison until finally last week French President René Coty ruled. In keeping with the general Allied policy of no longer exacting the death penalty for war crimes, he commuted the sentences of both men to life imprisonment...
Unfortunately, more students are needed if the need is to be met. With more help, friendship and knowledge might supplant isolation. Alice Oberg...