Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just then Hermann Göring was crunching a phial of potassium cyanide (no one knew where it came from). When guards and a chaplain rushed into his cell, he was dying. Meanwhile, near Nürnberg's old imperial Castle, a band of German children hung Göring in effigy. Then they burned the makeshift scaffold and silently marched around the fire, watching it scatter weird shadows among the rubble...
...sagging body of Hermann Göring was carried into the gymnasium on a stretcher. His skin showed a poisoned, greenish tinge. His toes were curled. After the official witnesses had taken a good look, he was carried behind a black curtain where the other ten corpses were waiting. Photographers took pictures of the bodies both dressed and naked. The photographs, labeled top secret, were taken to the Allied Control Council in Berlin. A few hours later, the corpses were removed in two vans, cremated and the ashes "secretly dispersed" at an undisclosed place...
...take exercise periods during which their cells were searched. He had designed interview booths in which prisoners and visitors could converse with one another without being able to touch hands. All seemed well, but Andrus forgot that a pattern had been set, and with men like Göring, just to see the pattern was to see ways to break...
...went in & out of the courthouse for days. On sentencing day itself a woman reporter moved by all the guards and reached the courtroom, to discover that she had forgotten to take a .38 caliber revolver out of her handbag. She could have leaned over and shot Göring -or the Chief Justice. But Colonel Andrus puttered about, occasionally stealing a dentist's tool from the prison dentist's office, just to see if it would be missed. It always...
...organized in the summer of 1945 by a group of politicians, superpatriots, businessmen. Its purpose was to combat the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, to ring doorbells and get out the vote, just the way P.A.C. did. It would have a blacklist, just like P.A.C. Targets of A.A. were such P.A.C.-backed Congressmen as Vito Marcantonio, Hugh De-Lacey, Edmund V. Bobrowicz (TiME, Sept. 30). But as salts in a cooled solution, when agitated, crystallize into some odd shapes, some oddly familiar shapes appeared in A.A. At the bottom...