Word: verden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Pfaff, Wigglesworth; David Holmes, Thayer South; Charles Chambers, Dudley; and Paul Verden, Grays...
Your Nov. 10 report on the SS meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These...
...that men should "grow sick at the sight of [their] black coats." At Niirnberg, before the court of world opinion, they were forever condemned for crimes against humanity. Yet last week the SS (full name: Schutzstaffel) marched again, jack boots ringing on the cobblestones of the garrison town of Verden in lower Saxony...
Steel Helmets. The occasion seemed harmless: since SS troops are not eligible for veterans' pensions, two former generals of SS combat divisions had formed an SS old soldiers society; last week they held a rally in Verden's soccer stadium. From all over Germany, even from South America, came more than 5,000 delegates. Welcomed by the Bur germeister, the SSmen made merry in Verden's beer gardens...
Last year's two $50 first prizes went to Nicholas Verden '51 and J. David Baumann '51. The former recited the Allocution by Pope Pius XII on the arrest of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, and the latter chose Ulysses' speech on order from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida...