Word: buchenwalde
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...Cola and Colgate-Palmolive, have weathered charges of aiding and/or operating for profits under the Nazi regime. A few years ago, when a lawsuit was brought against Ford, the company fought (and won) for a dismissal, but not before it acknowledged that its German subsidiary used labor from the Buchenwald concentration camp to build vehicles. Ford's U.S. offices maintain they were not responsible for what went on after its assets were seized in 1941 - a claim many companies, including IBM, make in the face of such accusations...
...larger message. Wiesel has described his formative years in the first volume of his memoirs, All Rivers Run to the Sea. He has given his testimony in Night, recalling the loss of his family and his childhood to the Nazi concentration camps at Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald. Memory requires honesty--Wiesel needed to describe his experiences in the camps. But he has given his description, and as he points out, speaking too frequently without restraint can lead to sensationalism and distortion of the truth...
...sesquicentennial of Goethe's birth, 250 illuminated busts of the German poet were lined up in a meadow in downtown Weimar. Fans could buy stockings imprinted with his lyrics or a vibrator bearing his likeness. An exhibition of his drawings was hung at Buchenwald...
Denson was the chief prosecutor for atrocities committed by Nazis in four concentration camps--Dachau, Mauthausen, Flossenberg and Buchenwald--in trials held between...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a Muslim, and Yisrael Lau, one of Israel's two chief rabbis, doesn't shoot hoops, but the two were eager to meet in Jerusalem this week. A family friend of Abdul-Jabbar's, Leonard ("Smitty") Smith, was among the first American soldiers to enter Buchenwald. He found Lau, then seven years old, and held him up to show people who lived in the nearby town of Weimar, saying, "Look! This is your enemy." Said Abdul-Jabbar: "I just wanted to complete the circle...