Word: sachsenhausen
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...Worst? The gaunt men & women were survivors of Eastern Germany's concentration camps. Released by the Russians as a propaganda gesture, they were the last of some 200,000 political prisoners whom the Russians had interned since the end of the war in the infamous Nazi camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mühlberg, Torgau, Bautzen and elsewhere. About half of the prisoners died of cold, hunger, disease or beatings. Another 70,000 were shipped off to Russia as slave laborers. Last week, with the air of a man conferring a great and generous boon, Soviet General Vasily Chuikov announced...
...blackest day at Sachsenhausen," said a broken, middle-aged man, "was a Sunday in November 1946. The Russians reduced our rations by 50%. After that the dead were taken away by the dozens...
...shabby, 61-year-old Erika Raeder, wife of Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (now serving a life term for war crimes), turned up in Berlin and unburdened herself to newsmen. The enigmatic Russians had fed her caviar in Moscow, starved her in Minsk, kept her peeling potatoes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Then, just as unaccountably, they...
Lange went to his home behind the royal castle, relaxed in an easy chair, and drafted the reply in longhand on two foolscap sheets. He submitted it to Premier Einar Gerhardsen (his cellmate during the war in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp), and to the foreign affairs committee of the Storting (Parliament...
...Jewish quarter at Sachsenhausen). "Dante's Inferno couldn't be worse. There were more than a thousand Jews; that is, they had once been Jews and human beings, now they were living skeletons, beastlike in their mad hunger. They flung themselves on the dust bins, or rather plunged into them, head and shoulders, several at a time; they scratched up everything, absolutely everything that was lying in them, potato peel, garbage, rottenness of every kind . . . The whole time, without a break, the blows from rubber truncheons were hailing down on them...