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...extermination of European Jewry was not carried out entirely by Germans alone, however, and so the blame must be shared by the Poles, Croats, Ukrainians, French, Italians and many others who had one bone or another to pick with their Jewish neighbors. Each of these societies played eager and willing roles as Nazi accomplices. There are innumerable documented instances of each of the European countries outdoing the shameless acts of their German counterparts in the level of barbarism and cruelty with which they treated the Jewish citizens of their countries. For the countries of the time, it was a question...
Snell's words might seem more prophetic if the blast had not happened 12 hours before he died. In any event, what would connect McVeigh to Snell's avengers? For that, Jones reaches to Andreas Strassmeir, 36, the ultra-right offspring of a politically prominent German family. In 1988 he came to the U.S. to indulge his fascination with the Civil War, racial politics and guns. In 1991 Strassmeir began to live on and off in Elohim City, a far-right religious community in eastern Oklahoma, where patriarch Robert G. Millar preaches his own variation of white-separatist ideology (northern...
Mahon denies any direct role in the bombing. He does admit knowing Strassmeir but rejects any suggestion that his German friend was a government informant. "When you get drunk with a guy over a period of days, you get to know him," says Mahon. "Andi never pried into my activities; we just sat around talking about how much we hate the government...
That aside, Jones still complains that neither of his chief targets, Strassmeir and Mahon, has been interviewed by the FBI. (Mahon says his lawyer has talked to the FBI, and Strassmeir has volunteered a 13-page statement to German police.) "My point," Jones says emphatically, "is that the investigation is incomplete...
...that time he was also teaching photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, a transplanted version of the Bauhaus, the great German laboratory of art and design that was shuttered by the Nazis. But the original Bauhaus aim of placing art in the service of socialist ideals didn't survive the trip to Chicago, because after 15 years of Depression and war, American artists were wary of politics. What they wanted was the luxury of a private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant...