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A Communist paper in Hunan province reported: "An everyday scene in the Hunan countryside is the sight of peasant militiamen, armed with spears and rifles, taking landowners to the execution grounds." A Canton paper rounded up the toll by hsien, or counties: "Fifty counterrevolutionaries executed in the last three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mass Slaughter | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

At the Nürnberg trials in January 1946, SS General and longtime Nazi Party Member Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski gave damaging testimony about his former bosses' plans to exterminate 30 million Slavs. Listening in the defendants' box, Hermann Göring was incensed. "Dirty dog! Damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Goring Died | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

As the Communists swept over the China mainland in 1949, Mao Tse-tung's regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the mounting clamor of a great Red terror. Mao Tse-tung's regime announced the execution of 120 "counterrevolutionaries" at Canton, 56...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reign of Terror | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

China's Red press described the liquidation of one "batch," numbering several hundred. Tien Feng had wrecked locomotive boilers in Peking's railroad shop. Li Chih-hsiang had ruined wind gauges, wind pumps and water pumps. Tung Hua-chang had inspired workers to slow down. Chin Han-kui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reign of Terror | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

"Thousands of citizens went to the execution grounds to see the executions," reported the Reds' New China News Agency. "All were highly indignant, and cursed these counter-revolutionaries." Peking's People's Daily added that the crowds "gritted their teeth in hatred . . . Cheers and applause were heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reign of Terror | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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