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The accused himself denied knowledge of atrocities, such as the use of gas wagons painted like carnival caravans which were employed by SS troops for mass executions. "Obviously some people acted differently from the way I expected them to act," he snapped. "A commander in chief can control his subordinates...
Dingaan the Vulture was one of Darkest Africa's crudest black despots.* In 1838 a column of 600 Boers in white covered wagons was trekking northward from the Cape colony into Natal; the bearded Voortrekkers (pioneers), who wanted to get away from the hated British and find new homes...
The guests left their weapons outside the kraal with their women & children. At the height of the festivity, after a tumultuous war dance, Dingaan's Zulus fell upon the Dutchmen, dragged them to the hill of execution, beat them to death with knobkerries, then surged on the Boer wagons...
Harvard undergraduates whose names had been turned in to University Hall appeared before various deans yesterday to present their sides of the case. Several of these students told the CRIMSON last night that they had been indiscriminately hauled from the street and tossed into patrol wagons.
All afternoon, the Navajos had been arriving in trucks and spring wagons, on horseback and afoot. St. Michael's Mission in Arizona, the heart and nerve center of the Franciscan effort to convert the Indians of the Southwest, was having its 50th anniversary last week, and from all over...