Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consolidated his power, Hesse invented his own classical serenity, all civilization encoded in an infinite chess game to be played like the Pythagorean music of the spheres, but in a motionless universe. The book was completed in Hesse's Swiss redoubt at Montagnola just about the time that Dachau and Auschwitz were becoming busiest. An overheated concern with relevance was not one of Hesse's faults...
...vast unphotographed domain of the Gulag archipelago became reality in Western minds only through the frenzied memory and meticulous detail of Solzhenitsyn. Reports of Hitler's death camps were repeatedly denied until photographers were able to fix forever in the mind the piles of corpses at Auschwitz and Dachau. Cambodia may have endured the crudest slaughter of a people since Hitler's time, but the evidence had to be pieced together from the individual accounts of fleeing Cambodians. The events they describe overlap, so that estimates of the dead vary widely and thus lack credibility. Without the witness...
...that confrontation. Instead, they obtained a ruling from Federal Judge George Leighton that Chicago could not require the bond and had to issue them a permit for a rally on July 9 in Marquette Park, near their headquarters. Said half-Jewish Collin (his Jewish father spent several months in Dachau): "My overall goal was always Marquette Park, where I can speak to my own white people rather than a mob of howling creatures in the streets of Skokie." Collin may find no peace on his home ground either: Black and Jewish leaders have promised to stage counterdemonstrations in Marquette Park...
...children have toured Dachau. They saw the ovens and stood in the showers, but they didn't begin to comprehend what happened until they watched Holocaust. The drama was worthwhile...
...someone innocently threw the bone fragments from a neighborhood cottage into the ditch." In his philosophy, evil was to be endured as part of inevitable progress toward good. Sometimes, in fact, his optimism could overwhelm his apprehension of evil; once during a debate that covered the Nazi experiments at Dachau, he told an astonished audience that "man, to become fully man, must have tried everything to the very...