Word: umschlagplatz
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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Author Levin ranges skillfully through Berlin ministries, where Nazi bureaucrats enthusiastically pursued their policy of Endlosung ("final solution") for the Jews, to Warsaw's Umschlagplatz, a transfer point to Treblinka, where a child's tongue was cut out "with a pocket knife for making a face at a guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward...
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