Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From standard Communist propaganda, or the much-praised movie 'Judgment at Nuremberg, one might conclude that West Germans have spent the past decade merely brushing Nazi crimes under the carpet. Not so. Obviously many Nazis have escaped justice, but since 1945 some 13,000 of Hitler's henchmen have gone on trial in West Germany, and about 5,000 have been sentenced to jail (there is no death penalty in West Germany). Today, some 40 separate trials are under way, with 90 defendants, including prison-camp commandants, guards, gas-chamber operators and plain Nazi bureaucrats, who for years...
...southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...
...business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny (4 ft., 11 in.), dark-haired Polly wrote a bestselling memoir (A House Is Not a Home) that helped enrich the idiom ("There's no shaking off the press"), completed...
...this implausible way, Estes collected more than $30 million in mortgages on imaginary tanks. He used the bogus mortgages as collateral to borrow roughly $22 million from commercial finance companies in New York, Chicago and other cities. To get the finance companies to accept the mortgages, Estes and his henchmen had to fake a lot of documents relating to the farmers' personal finances. One Estes secretary later admitted to typing five phony documents on five typewriters...
...normal hemisphere trade and the normal bonus on U.S. sugar-quota sales, the economy is in near collapse. Politically, the tensions grow more dangerous each week as the long-throttled opposition rises to take advantage of the new "democratization" of Balaguer violently resisted by the dead dictator's henchmen. Of little help is Ramfis Trujillo Jr., who commands the military and professes support of the new look, but holds the reins with an often ineffectual hand. The backlands are still Trujillo lands, and as opposition grows, so do beatings and shootings...