Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered him as the man who, when caught and sentenced to death* in 1943, had acknowledged the sentence...
...trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt, Himmler's physician, and bearded, Mephistophelean SS Colonel Wolfram Sievers, Military Research Institute head who, among other things, had gathered non-Aryan skulls for Himmler's notable collection...
Nazi Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schaicht, in the fourth year of an eightyear prison term, lost a fight to spring himself on a habeas corpus writ...
...Require all organizations which the Attorney General had determined were Communist or Communist fronts to register, report their finances, the names and addresses of their leaders and, in the case of Communist organizations, supply complete membership lists. (Maximum penalty for noncompliance: $5,000 fine and five years in prison...
...returned to the U.S., lived the life of a well-publicized fugitive, skipping from town to town. He wrote an autobiography, Proletarian Journey. In 1938, he was arrested at a brother's home in Lawrence, and sent back to prison in North Carolina. After four years, he was paroled...