Word: vught
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...bury a civilization, leaving its survivors in a confused struggle among the ruins? A year later it was still too soon to know. Many glimpses of Europe yielded gloomy answers. But for a scene full of hope that Europe was in truth rising again, the world could turn to Vught, in southern Holland...
...shone so brightly on the lake, the pines and oaks stood so peacefully in the quiet parkland of Vught, it was hard to believe that during the war this was one of the worst of the German concentration camps...
...people who walked quietly in the park last week remembered Vught, for many had spent months behind its electrified wire fence. They stopped walking and talking-but they did not stop remembering-when an automobile drew up and a dumpy old woman...
Undaunted. She wore a plain black coat, a soft felt hat with black and green ribbons. But to the thousands gathered at Vught, in the soft light of the Dutch evening she did not seem just a plain old woman. In dead silence she walked 500 yards along the firing range where the Nazis used to practice. The last 25 yards of her way she had to struggle with a laurel wreath almost as tall as she. Among the lilies and tulips at the base of a 15-ft. cross commemorating those who died at Vught, Wilhelmina of The Netherlands...
...Near Vught, in liberated Holland, New York Timesman James MacDonald inspected a Nazi death camp. Like Maidenek and Tremblinka in Poland, it had electrified barbed wire, lime pits, gallows, suffocation cells, dissection tables, crematories...