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Imagine the following scenario: The mayor of Berlin proposes that an exiled statue of Hermann Goering be restored to a prominent city square. He argues that while certain people may remember the Nazi leader as a vicious war criminal who founded the Gestapo, others associate him with his patronage of the Hermann Goering Master School for Painting and the Prussian Academy of Arts...
...problems of homeless children and poverty,” he has asserted. By Luzhkov’s rationale, and extending the earlier analogy, one might contend that Goering’s benefaction to young painters is a more important part of his legacy than his establishment of the Gestapo, operation of death camps and complicity in the slaughter of millions of Jews. This would be absolute nonsense—just as it is nonsense to argue that Dzerzhinsky’s supposed role in combating homelessness and destitution, however substantial that may or may not have been, is more historically...
...most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint against him, for his revenge on them was not enough.” And who can forget the headline in Saudi Arabia’s leading state-run newspaper when Israeli agents captured Gestapo henchmen Adolf Eichmann in 1960 (before the 1967 war and the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank)? The story read: “ARREST OF EICHMANN, WHO HAD THE HONOR OF KILLING SIX MILLION JEWS...
...half century ago? Wasn’t it the United States military that helped preserve our freedom by fighting the very men who embodied fascism? It was a disappointing realization that some in the Harvard community equate U.S. military men and women with the Hitler’s Gestapo and Mussolini’s Italian Army...
Finally, the question of the raid is one that also elicits much division of opinion. Many consider the operation a great success. We agree that the relatives were being evasive in their negotiations with Reno. But in our minds, the Gestapo-like tactics employed by Reno were absolutely unnecessary. Such tactics are reminiscent of the Castro government. Reno did not extinguish all her options: she should have obtained a court order that would have held the relatives criminally negligent if they did not return Elian. The negotiators for the family were nearing an agreement that morning with Reno...