Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children," said the prisoner in sneering condescension to the news photographers who had gathered to see her leave the Landsberg Prison gates, "you must be very poor to be making a living taking my picture." Fat, fortyish and seamy-faced, but pertly dressed in a smart green suit and loud beret, depraved Use Koch, wife of Buchenwald's commandant and renowned as a lampshade collector (human skins preferred), then proceeded to pose for the cameras while 40 black-uniformed guards watched in apathy...
Redheaded Use, also known as the Bitch of Buchenwald, whose life sentence for participating in the management of the concentration camp had been reduced to four years "for lack of evidence" by a U.S. Army board of review (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), had reached the end of her prison term at Landsberg. She had, it seemed, managed to keep busy during her stay in stir. She declined to discuss the bastard child to whom she gave birth two years ago in prison, but showing off her fairly fluent English, she told reporters that she had been writing her memoirs...
...Koch, though freed by the Americans, remained a free woman only for a few minutes. While she was still talking to newsmen, German police rearrested her and shipped her off to Aichach Prison, 25 miles away, to await a new war crimes trial before a German court. By the time she got to Aichach, she had recovered her good humor, gladly posed for another battery of photographers...
This week, weeping relatives crowded into Prague's police stations, trying to learn where their menfolk had been taken. The police sent many of the questioners out to Pankrac, Prague's biggest prison, which stands ominously on a hill overlooking the city...
...Elsie Lanage, a friend of his own father-in-law. Presbrey took his suspicions first to his city editor, then to the sheriff. The Daily News got the inside story, and Pres-brey's father-in-law got a life term at Minnesota's Stillwater prison for murder...