Word: oswiecim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Poland a German war criminal saw his last dawn. Convicted of sending 4,000,000 people to death, Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) extermination camp, was hanged on the same gallows where many of his victims had died...
Even by his own dilution of the blood on his hands, Hoess was history's top killer, the master of mass atrocity. The number of lives he had taken in Germany's horror camp at Auschwitz (Oswiecim) far exceeded the largest total in any historically accepted account of the world's bloodiest massacres. The tolls of all the recorded pogroms did not add up to the 2,800,000 Jewish lives which ended at Auschwitz...