Word: auschwitzes
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...born in Germany in 1937 and I lived there till 1956, before moving to the U.S. However, a good many people I meet just won't let me forget my "past." Somehow they blame me for Auschwitz and World War II. To those who can't bury their old hate, my reply is not "Sieg Heil" but an expression I heard Mr. Truman use-"Go to hell...
...first time in 20 years, the German language echoed once again through the cells, bunkers and crematoria of the infamous death camp at Auschwitz. It was spoken there by 16 lawyers and a judge from a Frankfurt war-crimes trial, who had made a special trip to Poland to check the credibility of testimony given at the trial of 21 accused Nazi murderers. Since war's end, Poland has kept a portion of the camp intact as a memorial to the estimated 3,000,000 slain prisoners, and as the German voices rang out, a Pole who had himself...
...that an extension of the statute would mainly net unimportant minnows at home, and overburden prosecutors who find it harder and harder to prove specific charges after 20 years. As one official puts it: "If you want to bring to court every railroad man who pulled the switches at Auschwitz, knowing that the trains were carrying Jews to their deaths, there will be no end to the number of people involved in Nazi crimes...
...Wolff had been Heinrich Himmler's closest confidant and his chief liaison officer to Hitler, had "supported and guaranteed" their plans to exterminate the Jews, and, between July and September of 1942, supplied the boxcars that took 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghettos to the ovens of Auschwitz...
Passenger. Two worldly matrons meet aboard a luxury liner, and flashbacks recall their relationship in Auschwitz concentration camp, one as a strong-willed prisoner, the other as a vindictive German guard. There, in an unexpected reversal of the usual atrocity tale, the guard is revealed to be not the master but the victim of the evil power she owns. Polish Director Andrzej Munk died in an auto accident in 1961 before the film was finished, but admiring associates fleshed it out with narration and eloquent still photographs to shape a classic, poignant memorial...