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Officially, Europe's gypsies were to be liquidated as a political and social menace to the German State. But to Rudolf Hoess* their innocent arrival at his camp was always excellent private entertainment. Life at Oswiecim had grown rather dull. True, Hoess had the satisfaction of having built up Oswiecim from a mere Polish artillery barracks to Germany's most up-&-coming death camp. And of course he could always find some amusement at the gas chambers, the first three of which he had constructed himself with great pioneering ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: 2,500,000 Pieces | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...British finally caught Rudolf Hoess in a farmhouse near Lüneburg where he had been hiding. They would soon put him on trial as a war criminal. In some ways, perhaps, he was the greatest of them all. He told his story with quiet authority, as though lecturing to a class, underscoring his points with deliberate gestures of his well-kept hands. He still sounded rather bored; only occasionally did he show signs of nervousness-when he reached for his hip pocket, as though searching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: 2,500,000 Pieces | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...confused with wit-wandering Rudolf Hess, now on trial at Nürnberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: 2,500,000 Pieces | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Fritz grew up to be musical director of the Dresden State Opera; Adolf founded the famed Busch Quartet. They all left Germany when Hitler's first anti-Jewish law went into effect and have never been back-though of all the family only son-in-law Rudolf Serkin is Jewish. Two unmusical Busches are still in Germany. Says Mrs. Adolf: "We don't even know if they are living, and don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Musical Busches | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major (Rudolf Serkin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). A pretentious old warhorse in new harness. Serkin plays it louder but not better than Horowitz did with Father-in-Law Toscanini in Victor's 1941 recording. Performance: fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

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