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Word: stench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spasms of self-pity: "I had to watch hour after hour, by day and by night, the removal and burning of the bodies, the extraction of the teeth, the cutting of the hair, the whole grisly, interminable business. I had to stand for hours on end in the ghastly stench ... I had to look through the peephole of the gas chambers and watch the process of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime of the Century | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...error in tactics that brought "the hatred of the entire world" on Germany. Another statement of Hoess's makes it more difficult for the Germans who claim that they saw, heard or knew no evil of the murder camps. Says he: "When a strong wind was blowing, the stench of burning flesh was carried for many miles and caused the whole neighborhood to talk about the burning of Jews." Near another camp, children could identify the special bus loaded with victims and used to say, "There comes the murder box again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime of the Century | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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