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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...
Members of the German parliament don't usually create much of a stir outside Europe. But Hermann Scheer electrified a Washington audience last month with his gale-force enthusiasm. Nuclear fission and fossil-fuel burning amount to "global pyromania," he told a conference of environmental activists. "Renewable energy is the fire extinguisher." By mid-century, he asserted confidently, wind, solar and other renewables can snuff out all conventional energy sources...
...year there were two trials, both involving very elderly men. A court in Ravensburg in southern Germany sentenced former SS officer Julius Viel, then 83, to 12 years in prison for shooting dead seven Jews as they dug trenches at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Judge Hermann Winkler said that neither the passing of years nor Viel's exemplary life since the war lessened the gravity of the offense. Viel died in February. And Anton Malloth, a former SS guard, was jailed for life for killing two Jews at the Theresienstadt camp during the last years...
...Hermann Maier to snatch gold. At Lillehammer in 1994, America's Tommy Moe grabbed gold over Norway's homegrown favorite, Kjetil Andre Aamodt. So it went at Snowbasin for Austria's season-dominating Stephan Eberharter. Almost predictably, he missed the gold...
...Hermann Maier to snatch gold. At Lillehammer in 1994, America's Tommy Moe grabbed gold over Norway's homegrown favorite, Kjetil Andre Aamodt. So it went at Snowbasin for Austria's season-dominating Stephan Eberharter. Almost predictably, he missed the gold...