Word: purgee
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The evidence on the atrocities is convincing; so is the general culpability of the accused, confessing men. But U.S. spectators will be left wondering about Russian court procedure. (As Arthur Koestler observes in his new book of essays-see BOOKS: ". . . that those particular Germans committed those particular crimes was proved...
The Housekeepers. The U.S. occupation team for Germany will at the outset be headed by General Eisenhower as chief of the American section (with Field Marshal Harold R. L. G. Alexander as his probable opposite number for Britain) ; Major General Lucius Clay as his deputy and administrative chief of staff...
At least one former Buchenwald prisoner was already engaged in governing post-Nazi Germany. By order of the military government, Herr Doktor X (anonymous under Allied rules) was taken from the concentration camp to become mayor of nearby Weimar. Mild, elderly Dr. X had been a Social Democrat, a secondary...
¶ In January 1933, senescent President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor. ¶ In June 1934, Hitler carried through the Blood Purge and became absolute Führer of the Nazi Party. In August Hitler became absolute head of the German state.
Next morning the Marshal and his wife were installed in a plainly furnished room of old Fortress Montrouge on the capital's outskirts. Below a barred window was the execution ground for those condemned by the Paris purge court. The Marshal glanced at the two beds, the two leather...