Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...
Last Wishes. On this dim morning last week, Yoshiko rose and calmly put on her grey, cotton-padded prison uniform. Six guards led her into the large vegetable garden in the rear of the prison...
...Then," said Yoshiko in mild irony, "I am grateful for the kind treatment I have received while alive in this prison." She paused briefly. "There is one thing, I should like to write a letter to my foster father." For a minute she brushed in Japanese...
...there anything else?" demanded the prosecutor. There was nothing. He gestured toward the guards. Yoshiko, upon order, faced about and walked nine paces forward. A guard with a rifle came up behind her. "Kneel down," he shouted. The echo rang out from the prison wall. Yoshiko knelt with the poise of a girl being introduced at court. The guard raised his gun, fired one shot into the back of her head. Yoshiko pitched awkwardly on her face. The morning...
...childish delight. Nothing that happened in Germany was beyond or beneath Lammers' passion for detail. The prosecution last week produced a letter he had written in 1941 to Germany's Minister of Justice: "The enclosed newspaper clipping about the conviction of the Jew Marcus Luftgas to a prison sentence of two and one-half years [for the hoarding of eggs] has been submitted to the Führer. The Führer wishes that Luftgas be sentenced to death. May I ask you urgently to instigate the necessary steps...