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...through. But it depends on how you say it: you may stay American, or you may adopt the Hitler-youth mentality, as you do in that article. "New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands," you boast. Can you have forgotten that the same was true in Auschwitz...
Fairy Tale. Polish Communist response was not moderate at all. Snarled the daily Zycie Warszawy: "Who in Poland empowered the Polish bishops to repent and forgive? On whose behalf have they done it? On behalf of the millions murdered in Auschwitz and Maidanek?" Other government papers chimed in, while "students" and "workers" rallied in Lodz, Szczecin and Warsaw to accuse the prelates of meddling in foreign affairs and sabotaging the national interest...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...
...Even if all the defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment, it still wouldn't be sufficient to expiate the deeds perpetrated at Auschwitz. For this, human life is too short." So spoke presiding Judge Hans Hofmeyer last week in Frankfurt as he sentenced 17 defendants whom a six-man jury had found guilty of murder or complicity of murder in the death of thousands of inmates at Auschwitz, the largest of Hitler's death camps...
...well as the man who gave the order to fire is guilty." But he steered clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher of Auschwitz" (TIME, Jan. 17, 1964), to West Germany's maximum penalty: life imprisonment. To eleven more defendants went sentences ranging from 39 months to 14 years for complicity in the mass murders. Only three of the defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence...