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...story began on Oct. 12, 1940--on Yom Kippur, a little more than a year after Hitler's invasion of Poland--when the Nazis decreed the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto; 400,000 Jews would be confined in 1.3 sq. mi., roughly the size of New York City's Central Park. The story has been told before--a once thriving Jewish community, the largest outside New York, squeezed incrementally by humiliation, poverty, hunger, cold, starvation, epidemics of typhus and tuberculosis, marauding Nazis who murdered on a free-lance basis, and at last, mass systematic deportations, the hopeless trudge to Umschlagplatz...
Humanitarianism would not have abolished slavery in the U.S. or shut down Hitler's gas chambers. Sometimes what decency needs is neither optimism nor pessimism but realism, a big stick and the will to use it. --By Lance Morrow
Your item "Bush's Furor Over Der Fuhrer" [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 30] reported that President Bush "lost it when he heard that German Justice Minister Herta Daubler-Gmelin compared him to Hitler." As an American living in Germany, I was a little concerned about all the fuss created by Daubler-Gmelin's supposed remarks. What ever happened to free speech? From my President, the leader of the free world, I would expect a more intelligent and grown-up reaction. Wayne A. Graves Essen, Germany...
DIED. CLAUS VON AMSBERG, 76, popular German-born Dutch prince and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam. Once vilified for his brief involvement with Hitler Youth as a teenager, he changed public opinion by denouncing Nazism, learning Dutch and working to preserve environmental resources...
...mass murder. As Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan pointed out last January in the Weekly Standard magazine: “[T]he effort to remove Saddam from power would be no more a ‘diversion’ from the war on al Qaeda than the fight against Hitler was a ‘diversion’ from the fight against Japan.” Indeed, Hussein and al Qaeda are merely different manifestations of the same fundamental danger...