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...walked up to a strapping woodcutter bending over a power saw deep in the dark North German forest of Sachsenwald. "Hands up!" shouted an officer, and the surprised lumberjack allowed himself to be handcuffed without resistance. Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp...
When the blacklist of Nazi mass murderers was drawn up for the Nürnberg war crimes trials, Baer was presumed dead-The two SS men who commanded Auschwitz before him were caught and hanged by the Poles, one of them on gallows especially built so that the last sight to meet his eyes would be the camp in which he had sent an estimated 2,000,000 innocent Jews to their death. After Exterminator-in-Chief Adolf Eichmann was found in Argentina last May, West German intelligence officers started a fresh search for Baer...
Juniors taking Ec 98 will be the first undergraduates to face an oral test in an Honors field during the coming mid-year examinations. The "experiment," under the direction of the Economics Department, is an effort to gauge the "real thinking process" of a student, according to Werner Baer, instructor in Economics...
Explaining that an oral test provides more flexibility in determining a student's ability than a written hour exam. Baer pointed out that if a "student is stuck in one particular area, you can easily switch to another where he may be more proficient...
Since Ec 98 is a tutorial course, the oral exam will not come as a "suddon" surprise, Baer claimed. He stated that in tutorials, "the students is trained to express himself orally on the subject...