Word: white
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papers" were mostly excerpts from pre-War II depositions made to British consuls in Munich, Frankfort, elsewhere in Germany, by both Aryans and Jews who had survived terms in Nazi camps, mostly famed Dachau near Munich and Buchenwald near Weimar. The White Paper quotes "Herr X, a well-to-do Jewish businessman," released after six weeks in Buchenwald, as saying that "Jews were told that the Führer himself had given orders that Jews might receive up to sixty strokes" of the lash...
...usual punishment in Nazi prison camps, according to the White Paper, for even slight offenses, such as failure to salute promptly, is "twenty-five strokes on the seat, carried out by two guards standing at each side with riding whips. The prisoner is lashed to a board. If he cries out, the strokes are increased to thirty-five. Guards use all their force, sometimes springing into the air so as to bring down the arm with increased momentum...
...Merry-Go-Round." The more inventive Nazi guards at Buchenwald, according to the White Paper, have a game they play with prisoners and trees: "If only a slight offense has been committed, the prisoners would be bound to a tree in such a way that they stood facing it and as if embracing it with their hands pinioned together. The straps that bound them would be pulled so tight that they could barely move. Guards would now 'play merry-go-round' with them. That is, they would force them to make their way round and round the tree...
Marriage annulled. Irving Lahrheim (Bert Lahr), adenoidal funnyman; and Mercedes Delpino Lahrheim, his former vaudeville partner; after ten years; in White Plains, N. Y. Three doctors testified that Mrs. Lahrheim had been insane for five years...
...Washington, D. C., visiting Philippine Assemblyman Villarama told newspapermen that there were only two things wrong with the United States: the national debt is too large and no one knows how to clean white shoes properly...