Word: ravensbr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep, surely-and with a cold limpid quality that masked her glance better than closed eyelids." Others had gazed into Sylvie Paul's eyes and tried to plumb their mystery-fellow fighters in the Resistance, German officers from whom she coaxed many a secret, Gestapo bullies at Ravensbrück concentration camp...
...figures approaching him. His orders were to turn back the civilians and defeated Nazi troops who were trying to escape the Russians, but these two were women, and he listened while one of them stated her case in broken English. She had just been released after five years in Ravensbrück concentration camp; before that she had spent two years in a Russian concentration camp. If the Russians caught her, she was through. Would he allow her and her fellow Ravensbrikk inmate to pass...
...flung my arms round his neck and kissed him," writes Author Buber. Under Two Dictators is her story of the seven brutal years behind barbed wire that led up to that first moment of freedom. Taken separately, Part I ("Soviet Concentration Camp, Karaganda") and Part II ("Nazi Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück") will be familiar reading to those who have conscientiously suffered through the tales of terror told by other survivors of NKVD or Gestapo imprisonment. Taken together, the two parts balance the scales in a deadly parallel never before made by a victim of both regimes. Author Buber...
Guinea Pigs. In the beginning, Author Buber found Ravensbrück easier than Siberia. "The Gestapo men . . . were still bound, if ever so loosely, to the judicial traditions of a civilized country, in which . . . an offender had to be formally charged and brought up for trial." If camp discipline was more fanatical, at least the food was better, the huts were cleaner, and the working day was shorter. But Nazi savagery soon showed its mad face. Periodically, groups of the sick, the aged, and such "racial inferiors" as Poles, Jews and gypsies, were marched off to the gas chambers. Young...