Word: buchenwald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spendthrift in prose (in his 63 years he wrote 60 books, none of them very well known in the U.S.). When Hitler came to power, Wiechert backed one of the dictator's most detested internal enemies, Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, and paid for it with five months in Buchenwald concentration camp followed by years of enforced silence. Tidings, Wiechert's posthumous novel (first published in Germany in 1953) is the fruit of his musings during those brutal years. It is, in the publisher's words, "a Christian message for an age that is un-Christian and totalitarian...
...Military Government officer in command of Buchenwald Concentration Camp during the final months before it became part of the Russian occupied territory, I was much interested in the trial of SS Guardsman Gerhard Sommer...
...other circumstances the man in the wheelchair would have seemed a pathetic figure. He had been at Buchenwald concentration camp. His face was pale and craggy, his left arm a stump, his right leg missing. Sick and shattered, he looked older than his 43 years. But in Bayreuth Circuit Court last week spectators hissed as the man was carried past. "Beast!" they cried. "Monster...
Gerhard Martin Sommer, the man in the wheelchair, had indeed been at Buchenwald-but not as a prisoner. As the master of the punishment cellblock between 1938 and 1943, Sommer was the broad-shouldered bullyboy who, in the words of West German Prosecutor Helmut Paulik, perpetrated "probably the most hideous group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi...
...commander of combined Anglo-French forces in France at the outbreak of World War II; in Paris. Removed from his command after the German breakthrough and blamed for the army's ignominious showing, Gamelin was tried by the Vichy puppets for inefficiency, later interned by the Germans at Buchenwald, lived out the days of peace in quiet retirement near Paris...