Word: thuringia
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...iron curtain across Europe parted a little last week. Escorted by Russian officers, seven U.S. newspapermen, among them TIME Correspondent Jack Fleischer, toured rich, lightly war-damaged Thuringia, southwest of Berlin, in the Russian zone. When they returned to Berlin, Fleischer reported this conviction-that the goal of Russian occupation policies is a socialized Germany...
Bulldozers and sweating U.S. engineers finished a bridge across the Mulde. Over it rumbled the Berlin-bound U.S. troops. Soon Russians would cross it in the other direction to take over territory vacated by the Americans. On the Autobahnen of Saxony and Thuringia U.S. vehicles rumbled west and south, making way for the Russians. At the roadside crowds of German civilians, fleeing the Russians, trudged in the same direction...
...York Times Correspondent Raymond Daniell visited a prominent German farming family in Thuringia, which soon was to be taken over by the Russians. The 20-year-old daughter of the family was indignant over "the betrayal of Germany to the Bolsheviks." She complained of a U.S. Army unit that had been briefly billeted on the farm, but was even more alarmed by the approaching Russian control...
Wilhelm Frick, a roistering Munich policeman who had risen to become "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, was a prisoner. It was Frick who, as premier of Thuringia, had conferred German citizenship on Austrian-born Adolf Hitler...
Propaganda is propaganda and in this war we have had more than our share of atrocity stories, but Buchenwald is not a story. It is acres of bare ground on a hill side in Thuringia where woods and fields are green under warm spring sun. It is miles and miles of barbed wire once charged with electricity and guarded by machine-gun towers built of creosoted pine logs. It is barracks after barracks crowded with 21,000 living, breathing human beings who stink like nothing else on earth and many of whom have lost the power of coherent speech...