Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Walter Wilson was born in the slave quarters of a Georgia plantation in 1825. Though he learned to read, and had religious "leanings," the freedom that followed the Civil War did not change his life-like most Negroes he went right on working in the fields. But in 1925, when he was 100, James Wilson joined the Baptist ministry. He preached for 17 years. Four years ago, when he applied for an old age pension, he achieved considerable local fame-the Census Bureau announced that he was the oldest resident of the U.S. Last year he retired...
...concept: that all those who decreed, directed or participated in the policies which resulted in planned undernourishment, slave labor, concentration camps and organized prostitution should be considered criminals. Under this definition, Germans could be tried and punished for crimes against other Germans, as well as against Poles, Russians...
Salvemini offered his solution to the problem of Trieste by proposing a plebiscite to determine to which country it should be annexed. "Neither Yugoslavia nor Italy has a right to the city. It is not a slave woman to be traded back and forth between the country which has the best army at one time and that which has it at another...
...wooden mallets); 4) carted to the furnaces, 18 at a time, by incineration crews. The cremation capacity was 400 per ten-hour day. ¶ Sergeant William Sandier, a U.S. prisoner of war, saw three young Frenchwomen flogged to death at his camp near Chemnitz. SS guards thought the women, slave workers in the camp, were becoming too friendly with the Americans. One morning 250 prisoners were assembled on the prison ground. The three women were lined up before them and stripped. 55 men then lashed them with a cat-o'-nine-tails till they died. Said the sergeant...
...Slaves & Skulls. In an insane asylum near Limburg they discovered a "murder factory" for "mercy killings." One of six in Germany, it had been set up for the disposal of unruly and overage slave laborers. Some 15,000 were gassed and cremated before nearby villagers complained of the polluted air. The next 5,000 were poisoned. SS men performed the daily executions. They celebrated their 10,000th killing, staffmen said, with a bacchanalian orgy, using the scoured skulls of victims as brandy flasks...