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What touched of-the uproar was an incident in a University of Amsterdam student club, inappropriately called "Nos Inngit Amicitia" (Friendship Ties Us Together). When a freshman complained because a plate of hot soup was poured over him, he was told to keep quiet or face "the Dachau treatment," in which upperclassmen shout, "Jews stand up!" (or "Negroes stand up!" or "Are there any Chinese here?"), then taunt the victims. "I lost my parents there during the war," protested the freshman, but he was ordered to go through with the game. An indignant parent wrote a letter to a Rotterdam...
...Washington reception last week. President Kennedy raised his glass in welcome to a visitor. "I think most of you know something of his life," Kennedy said, ''his distinguished service in World War I when he lost his leg, his five years in Dachau, which tested the strength of his political convictions, and his efforts since that time to maintain the integrity and security of his country." The visitor was Alfons Gorbach, 63, Chancellor of Austria, and his mission in Washington was plain: to get U.S. backing for Austria's application for associate membership in the Common Market...
...lawyer by training and a resourceful negotiator, Christian Socialist Gorbach symbolizes his country's mellow talent for compromise and conciliation; after Dachau he urged a forgive-and-forget attitude toward ex-Nazis not guilty of specific crimes. (" 'Good Lord,' I asked myself, 'how often shall victory and persecution alternate with each other?' ") But last week even Gorbach's conciliatory skills could not budge the U.S. from its stand opposing Market entry of neutral nations...
...other Nazi victim was Carmelite Father Titus Brandsma, a Dutch-born journalist famed for his prewar anti-German writings who was captured by Nazi troops after The Netherlands surrendered in 1940. Brandsma refused to retract his anti-Nazi views, died "protecting Christianity against National Socialism" in a Dachau gas chamber...
...Never Be Friends." Dachau and Buchenwald loom large in Jewish memories: one householder suspected that his surly postman was an unreconstructed Nazi, only to discover that the man was a lifelong socialist who had spent years interned in a concentration camp. Most of the German-born Jews who fled abroad have refused to return home, and the few who have come back are cautious still. "We work together with the Germans," says the production manager of a clothing firm in West Berlin, "but we can never be friends. They either feel guilty about what they did to us, or they...