Word: waldheim
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Germany. The Walls Came Tumbling Down relates the real saga of a Dutch girl, condemned to death by the Nazis for her work in the underground and awaiting execution at the Waldheim prison in southeastern Germany. Her story begins with the carnival of freedom that occurs when Waldheim is captured in 1945 by the advancing Russians. In those first hysterical days, the freed prisoners are as vindictive as a wolf pack. Captured guards are hurled to their death down a stairwell; a brutal prison doctor is beaten insensible and shot. Henriette comes face to face with a woman guard...