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Belsen From the Belsen camp LIFE Correspondent George Rodger reported: As Winston Churchill addressed the British troops on the banks of the Rhine on March 26, I heard him say: "We are now entering the dire sink of iniquity." These seemed strange words and I did not understand the full meaning of them until today, when at Belsen I witnessed the ultimate in human degradation. There the six-square-mile, barbed-wire enclosure in the heart of a rich agricultural center has been a hell on earth for 60,000 men, women & children of a dozen different nationalities who were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Erla | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...George Rodger of LIFE and I were moving closer toward the harbor when the whole area lighted to a white blinding intensity," Lang cabled. "Then a great weight hit me and I found myself flat on the pavement. I saw a huge rolling mass of flame a thousand feet in the air: a tanker had blown up 300 yards from us. Tied up just before us was another tanker; it could blow up any moment. 'Let's get out of here!' I shouted, and we climbed to the top of a nearby building and looked over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

This was the second African stronghold one of our TIME & LIFE News Bureau men stumbled into ahead of the Army. Two years ago (eight months before Pearl Harbor) George Rodger strolled out the causeway to Massaua, the last seaport held by the Italians in Eritrea, was escorted to the Italian general's headquarters, found to his amazement that the Italians were still looking for someone to surrender to. He had dinner that night with the Italian commander, was on the friendliest of terms with the vanquished before the surrender ceremonies next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Burma Road to help Britain keep China's back door open, Belden went along into Burma. When he reached Maymyo he found two other members of the TIME & LIFE News Bureau already on hand at General Stilwell's mission-house headquarters-Correspondent Clare Boothe and Photographer George Rodger-so he decided to keep on going, borrowed a jeep and a Tommy gun and jolted his way south into the bloody Jap-trap at Yenangyaung. (It's a habit with him; he's been in the thick of the fighting of almost every critical campaign since China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 21, 1942 | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...spot news reports from the uneasy front covered by Zinder-and a large part of Zinder's job is to satisfy the editors' requests for background in formation to make the significance of these bulletins clearer. And other correspondents are frequently in the Cairo office-George Rodger, for example, is there about now on his way home from New Delhi; Hart Preston spent some time in Cairo recently en route to a special job in Ankara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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