Word: dachau
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Seven years after the gas chambers of Dachau were shut down, Germans and Jews sat down to sign a solemn agreement. By it, West Germany undertook, in the words of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, to "make moral and material amends" for the "unspeakable crimes committed in the name of the German people...
...Another: "Dachau was a death camp. Koje is a whole island of death run by American hangmen...
...Hitler ordered him sent to the concentration camp at Dachau. When the cardinal appeared for his journey, dressed in full regalia, his SS guards hesitated to take him through the streets of Munich, where he was universally respected. The order was rescinded and the Nazis never again openly tested their strength against him. For the next ten years he led the Catholic Church's resistance to Hitlerism, speaking out against it where most of his fellow priests (and most Protestant clergymen) were hesitant or fearful. As early as 1933 he prophesied from his pulpit: "A state based on right...
...line-up in Dachau one morning, the Nazi guard ordered the sick and disabled to form on the left, the able-bodied on the right. An instinct of danger swept over one-armed Kurt Schumacher. He stepped to the right and marched off with the ablebodied. The men on the left were never seen alive again. By 1943, so ill and ravaged that the Nazis set him free to go home to his sister's in Hannover to die, he was a pitiful walking cadaver, with ulcers, yellowing stumps for teeth, flickering eyesight. Schumacher still carried...
...Communists clustered around Kurt Schumacher like hummingbirds around a morning glory; some were friends from Dachau days. They wanted a SocialistCommunist coalition which would make Berlin plumo for their plucking. Inside the party, a wing led by Otto Grotewohl, who had sat with Schumacher in the Reichstag, argued for the coalition. After all, they said, Communists and Socialists are ideological brothers. "Yes," Schumacher would reply, "like Cain & Abel." He detested the Communists as much as he had the Nazis, and blamed their war against Socialists in the Weimar days for Hitler's rise to power. Even Western occupation officials...