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Martin Mildbrandt, 28, was driving southbound on Interstate 495 near Berlin when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel, according to State Trooper Kevin Burke...
Born in 1924 and raised in Berlin, I can assure you that the vast majority of Germans did not know what the Nazis did to our Jewish friends. We grew up with them, saw them deported and were made to believe they were "resettled" in the East. The anti-Semitic program of the Nazis was certainly not taken seriously enough when it first started in 1933. Even Kristallnacht in 1938 was regarded by many Germans as an unfortunate excess. The truth, for most of us and most of the world, became evident after the Nazi nightmare was over. SIEGFRIED KRAMER...
There it stayed until the end of World War II, when the advancing Red Army arrived in Berlin in 1945 and confiscated art by the truckload. The world believed Schliemann's gold was lost. Curators at the Pushkin knew better. It wasn't until 1991, however, that Russian art historians Grigorii Kozlov and Konstantin Akinsha, who had ferreted out the existence of the artifacts, announced the discovery to the West. It took two more years for the Pushkin and the Russian government to fess...
That doesn't mean other nations are cheering the Russians on, however. Germany is negotiating to recover all the artwork seized by the Soviets in 1945, including Priam's Treasure. "Contrary to custom," sniffs a statement from Berlin's Museum of Early and Pre-History, "the Pushkin Museum will be exhibiting the Schliemann gold without the participation of its owner." German curators have even broached the idea of lending the lesser Schliemann artifacts they still possess to the Pushkin, presumably in exchange for a return loan. But so far there has been no response...
Strassmeir left the U.S. in December, after being approached by one of Jones' investigators, and surfaced later in Berlin. Reached there by phone last week, he denied any role in the bombing. He acknowledged that three years ago he bought some secondhand clothes from McVeigh at a Tulsa gun show and "probably" gave him an Elohim City business card. Otherwise, Strassmeir insists, they have not been in touch. "The only connection between me and McVeigh," he says, "is that I bought an old pair of pants from...