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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about this spot in a review you usually find a reference to the inimitable Bobby Clark who will save the whole shebang from a fate worse than bankruptcy. It grieves me to report that not only is the heretofore exuberant Mr. Clark imitable, but also that with a few exceptions he isn't worth imitating. For an old Clark afficionado those are hard words to utter, but there they are. The show, as it stands, is a clinger...
Wrote Geoffrey Gorer, British anthropologist and journalist, in the Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
Some Germans were bitterly cynical, some U.S. citizens furiously angry, and Communist propagandists were delighted last week. The reason: a U.S. Army board of review in Germany had reduced the life sentence of Use Koch to four years. Said one German: "Perhaps she'll go to the States as a G.I. bride...
...Nazi concentration camp where more than 50,000 died. Inmates said that Use had men flogged for the pleasure it gave her, and collected human skin, preferably tattooed, for lampshades and bookbindings. Thirty other Germans had been convicted, with her, for Buchenwald's operation. In a routine review of sentences, twelve of her co-defendants had also received sentence reductions. But Use had been the most vivid of the defendants, and she had received the review board's biggest reprieve; Use became the focus of protest. From all sides the U.S. Army was boiled in angry...
...review board may have found some compelling reason for reducing Use's sentence, but if it had, Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall did not reveal it. Instead, he agreed that the evidence had proved that Use "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, but lamely justified the sentence reduction with: "There was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...