Word: holocaust
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...referred to the Holocaust as a “detail” of history and seeks to outlaw the wearing of Muslim headscarves in schools. He would end legal immigration to France and expel illegal immigrants already in the country. In an editorial Monday, the publisher of the left-leaning French daily Le Monde referred to Le Pen as a “sinister demagogue” and wrote of the humiliation that citizens feel at the strong showing of a man who has often been accused of racism. Despite Le Pen’s radical positions, he captured...
...night before the ambush, soldiers from the 5th Brigade had gathered in a house inside the camp to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. The 28-year-old head of one company, Lieut. Dror Bar, had spoken about the symbolism of the moment. "In Europe, Jews couldn't fight back," he had said. "Today we're being attacked, but we can fight back." The soldiers had lighted candles and read a Psalm. During the next morning's ambush, Dror Bar was killed...
...Committee have announced they may sue a number of corporations because of their historical profit from slavery. The defendants may include such august institutions as Yale University, Brown University and our own Harvard. This lawsuit is modeled on the lawsuits brought by the families of Jewish victims of the Holocaust against companies such as Swiss and Austrian banks...
This legacy of harm generates a resounding claim for recompense. When Germany announced its “moral responsibility” for the Holocaust reparations (Wiedergutmachung) in 1954, the Federal Republic of Germany’s first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, stated that Germany was culpable for the “state-sponsored” crimes of the Nazi regime. Likewise, the U.S. government admitted its complicit nature in the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 for the Japanese interment camps in this country during World War II, and found that with governmental culpability comes the need for repair. Black reparations models...
Chronological proximity, for example, allowed monetary reparations to be made to Holocaust victims who were used as slave labor in Nazi Germany. Similarly, the federal government offered reparations to survivors of Japanese-Americans interned during World War II and victims of race riots, but, in those situations, victims or their direct descendents were more easily identified...