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...have steadfastly claimed that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947. But each time the Wallenberg case has threatened to completely fade away into anonymity, a new piece of evidence has cropped up to support the possibility that Wallenberg is still alive. In his painstakingly researched book Righteous Gentile, John Bierman has gathered together the evidence which has been collected to date to support this theory and has supplemented the evidence with his own interviews of key sources to provide a fascinating biographical account of Raoul Wallenberg...
...first half of the book tells of how Wallenberg became involved in the effort to save the Hungarian Jews and contains eye-witness accounts of many of his heroic and ingenious efforts while in Budapest. Bierman plays up Wallenberg's heroism by contrasting it against the atrocities that were committed in Hungary at the time, especially by Eichmann, Wallenberg's arch-enemy and a man utterly dedicated to Hitler's Final Solution--the absolute extermination of Jews in Europe...
...criminals, he was perhaps the most cold-heartedly sinister, a man so evil that years after the war he could say without reservation, "I will jump into my grave laughing because the fact that I have the deaths of five million Jews on my conscience gives me extraordinary satisfaction." Bierman tells of the death marches--organized by Eichmann--which claimed tens of thousands of lives. And the Hungarian terrorists were no better than the Nazis; in some cases they were even worse. They roamed the streets of Budapest in packs, randomly terrorizing and executing Jews. The city had erupted...
Gordie Nelson got a feed from Pedroni for the next tally, and then notched an unassisted marker to tie the game, 6-6. The next goal would surely be the most important of the game, and unfortunately, it was Dartmouth that got it. Middie Bruce Bierman did the honors only 29 seconds later while Harvard's Al Senior watched from the penalty...
Died. Bernard W. (Bernie) Bierman, 82, University of Minnesota football coach from 1932 to '50, who led the school to three Associated Press national championships and five undisputed Big Ten titles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. The "Silver Fox" of football, shy, soft-spoken Bierman preferred reading notes aloud to his players rather than giving them pep talks, and emphasized blocking and tackling rather than passing. His advice to his teams: "Base your plays on standards most likely to defeat the champions," instead of their actual opponents...