Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schmidt's frosty comments about "Carter's 'preachy fanaticism on human rights" raises the specter of German human rights as exemplified by Auschwitz. Schmidt should recognize that he owes his very existence to human rights as practiced...
Your story is the first positive thing I have read on West Germany since I came to the U.S. as an exchange student. I usually read about how many people have visited the concentration camps during the past year, how many German war criminals have not yet been sent to prison, and so forth. To be sure, I don't want to gloss over all the things that happened in Germany during the years under the Nazis. I have to face my country's history...
...Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal saw "some very nasty storm clouds" developing quickly as a result of the oil cartel's seeming insatiability for higher prices, while West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt intoned about "great danger" ahead for all concerned, including the oil producers. The best hope that France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing could offer anyone was that the industrial world could look forward to a prolonged period of "sober growth...
Lifton concedes that most other German professionals also capitulated to Hitler, with certain heroic exceptions. What made the corruption of physicians so crucial to Hitler was that their support provided moral and scientific legitimacy for his crazed racial and biological notions. They did this in varying ways: by cooperating in sterilization and euthanasia programs, by counseling patients toward "racially pure" marriages, by expelling Jews from medicine, and by actually helping carry out the Holocaust. After all, it was doctors who supervised the "selections" at the concentration camps-deciding who would live to work, who would die in the gas chambers...
...lonely for the sight of some administrators, and you can't get through to them in their offices, try the Wursthaus. Most of them take each other to lunch there, feasting on its dreary German fare...