Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manstein admitted that he condoned executions of the wives of Russian partisan fighters as reprisals for attacks on German soldiers. But, he argued, the Russians themselves never adhered to any rules of war. "The shooting of women is not very nice," said Manstein. "But sometimes the partisan war did not make anything else possible . . . The [Russian] civilians used every form of illegal warfare possible-shooting in the back, wearing German uniforms, employing women and children as spies and poisoning the water supply...
...other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only for "supply" purposes...
This week in a hushed courtroom packed with German spectators, many of them with the stiff, erect bearing of former Wehrmacht officers, Manstein heard the verdict. He was found guilty on nine counts concerning execution and maltreatment of Russian soldiers and civilians; he was cleared of eight other counts, notably concerning the extermination of Jews. Then the court pronounced sentence: 18 years in prison. For 62-year-old Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, it was probably a life term...
...Respectability. He leads what he calls a "very humdrum life" in the five-room frame house the army furnishes him in Ramsey, N.J., and rides to his 14th Street office every morning in the Buick sedan which the army allots him, behind a Dutch chauffeur who escaped from a German slave labor camp...
Silver Spoon. No rags-to-riches hero, Ernest Kurth is the son of a German immigrant who came to Texas in 1871 and pioneered the South's lumber industry...