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Died. Thomas Mercer Backhouse, 51, officer in charge of the war crimes section in the British Army of the Rhine in World War II, successful prosecutor in 1945 of Joseph ("The Beast of Belsen") Kramer and other Nazi operators of Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps; of pleurisy; in Nottingham, England...
...deliberately Bulganin summoned back the terrible memories that had been lying all along just beneath the thin veneer of cheerfulness. "The Soviet people cannot forget ... the shooting of 70,000 people at Babi Yar ... the millions of people shot, gassed or burned alive in the German concentration camps . . . Majdanek . . . Oswiecim . . . Kharkov." It rolled out like a litany. "Smolensk . . . Krasnodar . . . Lvov." The 9,626 imprisoned Germans were paying for those crimes, said Bulganin. If they were released at all, it could only be through negotiations in which Adenauer would have to sit down with the East German Communists...
...years since Adolf Hitler had seized power amid the hoarse cheers of German millions; ten years since his armies had invaded Poland; five years since the memorable period in history when 12,000 Jews died each day in the Nazi gas chambers at Oswiecim; four years since the battered Third Reich had surrendered to the overwhelming might of the U.S. and its Allies. A new regime, already endowed with many of the powers of a respected, sovereign nation, was rising from Germany's ruins. The Western world, led by the U.S., was about to slip the shackles off defeated...
...just received the notice from the Government in Czechoslovakia, that my parents and all my other family had been deported in 1942 to a concentration camp in that country, and from there deported again to the gas chambers of Oswiecim in Poland...
Most damning charge was that Farben experimented on slave labor and concentration camp inmates with "deadly gases, vaccines and related products." To supply slave labor for its synthetic rubber plant at Oswiecim, Farben allegedly constructed a concentration camp and worked the men, women & children so hard that an estimated 100 a day died from exhaustion...