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...possible to keep the Final Solution a secret from their neighbors, from soldiers and intelligence agents and the foreign press? In part, says Laqueur, with a screen of euphemisms and evasions. Even in Germany, Jews were not executed, they were officially "resettled," "removed," given "special treatment." Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Propaganda, told loyal journalists how to respond to investigations of the Final Solution: Cite British atrocities in India...
...child Nelly, growing up in a pro-Nazi family, joins the Hitler Youth organization as a matter of course. Her religion class in school emphasizes racial purity, and the burning of the synagogue on her street evokes not pity but rather fear of alien beings. Neither does the euthanasia program provoke an outcry from the child or the parents, even when it claims the life of Nelly's feeble-minded Aunt Dottie. As Wolf makes clear, a child's morality is wholly dependent on that of the parents. A child cannot make moral judgements about the actions of her world...
Born into a noble landowning family in Kurow, he rose to the top ranks of a proletarian dictatorship. Forcibly deported to the Soviet Union after Stalin and Hitler partitioned his homeland in 1939, he later became one of Moscow's staunchest advocates, and according to some accounts took a Soviet wife. Alternately called a moderate and a hard-liner by Western observers, he seems to be above all a survivor. To many, that is precisely what Poland needs at this hour...
...book and movie The Boys from Brazil, a demented Nazi doctor uses blood and tissue cells from Adolf Hitler to clone dozens of copies of the German dictator in the hope that at least one of them will seize power and conquer the world. Though the cloning of human beings is likely to be confined to fantasy for decades-perhaps forever-other kinds of cloning have long been possible. The Greek word klon means twig, and the simplest kind of vegetable cloning consists of cultivating cuttings from a plant. By the mid-1950s scientists had succeeded in cloning amphibians, producing...
...notion of book burning is unthinkable to many and appalling to others, if only because it brings to mind the rise of Adolf Hitler's Germany - an event marked by widespread bon fires fed by the works of scores of writers including Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells and Jack London...