Cohen, Roger. Soldiers and slaves; American POWs trapped by the Nazis' final gamble.COHEN cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , Roger. Soldiers and slaves; American POWs trapped by the Nazis' final gamble. Random House, Anchor. 303p. illus. notes. index. c2005.0-385-72231-1. $15.00. SA Sixty-odd years after V-E day, fresh reminders of the barbaric nature of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust still drift to the surface to horrify us yet again. Even as the Third Reich was being hammered to its knees late in 1944, desperate German bureaucrats ordered vast new underground factories to manufacture the wonder weapons that might yet save Hitler's regime. Accordingly, the SS was directed to excavate huge facilities at the obscure town of Berga in eastern Germany. Exercising carte blanche CARTE BLANCHE. The signature of an individual or more, on a while. paper, with a sufficient space left above it to write a note or other writing. 2. In the course of business, it not unfrequently occurs that for the sake of convenience, signatures in blank are power, SS officers confronted Americans captured in the Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge, popular name in World War II for the German counterattack in the Ardennes, Dec., 1944–Jan., 1945. It is also known as the Battle of the Ardennes. On Dec. and demanded to know which were Jewish. Several hundred dazed daze tr.v. dazed, daz·ing, daz·es 1. To stun, as with a heavy blow or shock; stupefy. 2. To dazzle, as with strong light. n. A stunned or bewildered condition. young POWs who were either Jewish or "looked" Jewish found themselves slaving deep underground, part of the Final Solution. Where gas chambers were not available, the Nazi policy was simply to starve and work "inferior" captives to death, a fate that overtook some 20 percent of the American soldiers by the time Germany surrendered five months later. In the maelstrom Maelstrom, whirlpool, Norway: see Moskenstraumen. of a shattered continent, the existence of Schwalbe 5 and its atrocities were largely overlooked by the victors until author Roger Cohen disinterred the story and interviewed many of the survivors. Cohen, the author of several works of popular military history, is properly angered that the atrocity at Berga was not prosecuted at Nuremburg, nor even publicized at the time. He has done an admirable job, however, in discovering the story and bringing it to vivid life. Raymond Puffer puffer, common name for some tropical marine fish of the family Tetraodontidae. The puffers and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes). , Ph.D., Historian, Edwards AFB AFB abbr. acid-fast bacillus AFB Acid-fast bacillus, also 1. Aflatoxin B 2. Aorto-femoral bypass , Lancaster, CA S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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