Best of
True-Crime

1960

Candle of the Wicked


Manly Wade Wellman - 1960
    

Big City Crimes


Harold R. Danforth - 1960
    True cases of crime and corruption written by two investigators working out of the New York City District Attorney's Office under the administrations of Thomas Dewey and Frank Hogan.

Butchers of Buchenwald


Walter Poller - 1960
    I felt it distinctly. I did not want to, but I was. I could tell this by the fact that the flogging scenes, which had at first so agitated me, were now beginning to be uninteresting. My ears were oblivious to the cries of pain of the tortured men, and only laughed with the others when someone gave particularly loud cries of pain during his flogging."I then had an experience which pulled me back from drifting into this general apathy. When I now look back at my time in the concentration camp, I can state that the S.S. myrmidons themĀ¬selves, with their practically inexhaustible inventions of new methods of torture, saw to it that not a single human emotion within me was killed."I had learned to live with the castrations, the dissections, the green hypodermics, the injections of Cardiazol. But what I will never forget is the prisoner who was dragged to death by the...-----------A survivor's pitiful recollections of the human experiments perpetrated by Nazis Germany at Buchenwald Concentration camp