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...that human beings fought each other over a potato?' So asks this utterly unsentimental, open-eyed, harrowing portrait of ghetto life during the Holocaust...Rosenfeld was a modestly successful writer of novels and novellas when the Nazi Anschluss forced him to flee to Prague. Following the German conquest of Czechoslovakia, he was transported to the ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was put to work in the statistics bureau...Officially, and with the knowledge and permission of the Nazi overseers, Rosenfeld recorded such matters as death, food rations, decrees from the ghetto leadership, and reports from the Jewish police; unofficially...
...ultimate test of American foreign policy is a question of its rightness, not of the process by which it was formed. Communities can make mistakes and individuals act rightly. The decision to appease Hitler by abandoning Czechoslovakia in 1938 was arrived at by international consensus; it was as multilateral—and as wrongheaded—as one could hope. On the other hand it is hardly likely that, if the United States had decided to halt genocide in Rwanda through police-keeping action, that policy would have been spat upon as “unilateral...
...DIED. LADISLAO KUBALA, 74, former Barcelona forward who was voted the club's greatest player ever; in Barcelona. Before coaching the Spanish national team for 68 games from 1969-1980, the Hungarian-born Kubala helped his club win four league titles and five Spanish Cups. He also played for Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and did brief coaching stints for the Saudi Arabian and Paraguayan national teams. DIED. KHUNYING KANITTHA WICHIENCHAROEN, 82, gutsy lawyer and women's activist; in Bangkok. One of the first women in Thailand to receive a university education, Kanittha devoted her career to battling discrimination against women. Among...
...Last year there were two trials, both involving very elderly men. A court in Ravensburg in southern Germany sentenced former SS officer Julius Viel, then 83, to 12 years in prison for shooting dead seven Jews as they dug trenches at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Judge Hermann Winkler said that neither the passing of years nor Viel's exemplary life since the war lessened the gravity of the offense. Viel died in February. And Anton Malloth, a former SS guard, was jailed for life for killing two Jews at the Theresienstadt camp during the last years...
...anguished aftermath of World War II, almost 3 million ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from what was then Czechoslovakia because of the majority's overwhelming support for the Nazis. The Sudeten Germans, as they have become known, lost their homes, land and livelihoods, and between 20,000 and 200,000 people - depending on which source you believe - died in internment camps and on the long march to Germany and Austria. Now the Sudeten question is once again stirring controversy in Central Europe, with fresh calls for reparations and demands that the Czech Republic be barred from the E.U. unless...