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...than polite, and ruthlessly articulate. As professor of visual arts at M.I.T., he is used to conducting interprofessional seminars in such elusive studies as "structure" and "continuity," and to thinking out his own esthetic positions in precise if thickly accented terms. "It is not important to me to echo Auschwitz," he says, "or Hiroshima, or the Russian slave camps. We can't compete with such brutality, and we shouldn't just mirror it. What we can find are the seeds of something clean and pure. My generation throws away all hope that one can go beyond the everyday...
Although I lost my father in the concentration camp of Auschwitz when I was eleven years old, and have no desire to see a new police state established anywhere, I refuse to participate in the current wave of mass hysteria over the swastika issue, by many Americans considered a sign of another anti-Semitic feeling in Germany...
During Alfried Krupp's trial as a war criminal in -1948 (he was to spend 30 months in prison until pardoned), the U.S. prosecution charged that he "actively sought to employ concentration-camp inmates and for that purpose built factories near the camps of Markstaedt and Auschwitz." Though witnesses said that 100,000 camp inmates and P.W.s worked in Krupp plants, no one knows how many were Jews. Of the Jewish slave laborers, an unknown number died in the Nazi gas ovens. In the whole federal republic, there are now only 30,000 Jews. Krupp officials estimate that there...
...rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in Munich. Historian Anton Hoch, the institute's archivist, accepting the scientific basis of Spiegel's findings, commented: "We must report atrocities such as Auschwitz and Belsen concentration camps, but for the sake of truth we must also show that Nazis were not to blame for the Reichstag fire. The purposes to which they turned it were grim enough...
...more explosive ground now, she gets so chummy with the Gestapo that they try to set her to spying out the racial history of one of her new friends, a suspected Jewess. The trap, of course, snaps on Eva herself. The next stop is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Nesting at the end of the line for Eva are true love and a family in Israel. From the moment she bounces into view, no reader can doubt that her ending will be upbeat...