Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even by his own dilution of the blood on his hands, Hoess was history's top killer, the master of mass atrocity. The number of lives he had taken in Germany's horror camp at Auschwitz (Oswiecim) far exceeded the largest total in any historically accepted account of the world's bloodiest massacres. The tolls of all the recorded pogroms did not add up to the 2,800,000 Jewish lives which ended at Auschwitz...
...three other stories one concerns a frustrated pianist, and another a frustrated man who just sits in a cafe. The remaining story, by Miss Miriam Ginsberg, it is a pleasure to report, is humorous, and despite the very mild nature of its wit, her account of a girl's gym class seems practically uproarious when compared with the morose material which surrounds...
More than 40 percent of those answering the poll hope to obtain a place in Lowell House for the coming three years. Better music rooms, record collections, the House library, and omnipresent gastronomic considerations seem to account for the majority of these choices, although two men were swayed by the apparently magnetic personality of House-master Elliot Perkins...
More concerned with the thoughts and reactions of Russians, than in their physical setting, "Through Russia's Back Door" is a running account of conversations and incidents from Shanghai to Berlin, as a reporter saw them. Lauterbach was tied down to a coach of the Trans-Siberian Railway through most of the trip, and the book necessarily suffers from the limitations of such a vantage point. This narrow scope of observation does not, however invalidate his report; it merely robs it of the greater sampling possible if be had been allowed free rein to talk and travel as he pleased...
...physical shape to endure another major struggle. They emerge from the book as a people exhausted by their great exertions, sincerely desirous for a rest to recuperate their powers, and at the same time profoundly suspicious of events outside their border. Readers will also be impressed by the account of a police state in full swing with an ubiquitous corps of agents, and a bureaucracy as red-taped as could be discovered anywhere. The war-weariness, pervasive as he found it, has not prevented an increasing return to "normalcy" with prices beginning to come down and new products appearing. Lauterbach...