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...couple of weeks ago, swastika, the symbol of Hitler's Third Reich, were scrawled across three posters advertising Jewish activities at Harvard Law School Last fall, someone etched a swastika into the Jewish Law Student Association Bulletin Board...
...Black soldiers just returning from World War I who were lynched while still wearing their uniforms, the still-unsolved murders of 14 Black women in Boston over the last few years, the shooting of a nine-year-old Black girl by the Ku Klux Klan on the anniversary of Hitler's birthday--the list goes...
Arthur Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to Bonn, is fond of complaining to West Germans that by neglecting to teach the history of the past 40 years-West German schoolbooks have tended to skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even...
...Exactly 50 years earlier, on Feb. 9, 1933, the Union debated the same subject in the same wood-paneled hall. On that occasion, memories of World War I trench warfare were still vivid, and the motion was carried, 275 to 153. Only a few people seemed concerned that Adolf Hitler had just come to power in Germany. Even so, the pacifists' victory stirred an outcry. The Daily Express ranted against the "woozy-minded Communists, practical jokers and sexual indeterminates of Oxford," while Winston Churchill deplored "this abject, squalid, shameless avowal...
...occupation officers, was interned by the U.S. Army on war crime charges. What happened after that remains somewhat controversial to this day. According to France's renowned war criminal experts, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, American intelligence agents secretly recruited Barbie to conduct spying missions in eastern Germany immediately following Hitler's defeat. Barbie supposedly helped gather information on Soviet troop positions as well as on the whereabouts of other Gestapo fugitives wanted by Allied authorities; in return he was given a false identity, a home in Munich and the opportunity to get out of Germany while the Americans played dumb...