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Germans who deny the Holocaust won't just be treated like nuts; they could be thrown in the slammer. A crime bill that passed both houses of the parliament includes tough measures against neo-Nazi activities in the country -- like five-year jail terms for people who promote the belief that Auschwitz was a lie. Neo-Nazis remain a serious problem in Germany, where they commit three violent, illegal acts every...
...Last week, a couple of days after the Smithsonian released its third Hiroshima script, Elie Wiesel was speaking in Washington at the new U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was addressing 120 teenagers from five Middle Eastern countries who had spent a summer session at a Maine camp in the "Seeds of Peace" program. A Palestinian boy in the program minimized the Jews' Holocaust under the Nazis and said bitterly, thinking of his own people, "There are many holocausts...
...almost everyone is against killing doctors who practice abortion, though it is a little hard to understand why. The logic of Paul Hill -- that abortion equals baby killing, that there is a "holocaust" going on and that therefore killing an abortionist is "justifiable homicide" -- may be insane, but it is more consistent than the logic of those who share all of Hill's premises but reject his conclusion...
...Pensacola, Florida. Almost all elements of the right-to- life movement condemned the killings. But why? After all, the practical effect of such actions is not merely to put one baby killer out of business but to chill the entire practice of abortion in America. Surely during the real Holocaust it would have been "justifiable homicide" to kill a German camp guard, if that would have slowed the feeding of the gas chambers...
From a film industry that softens virtually any contentious social issue -- aids, the Holocaust, Vietnam -- into a fable with a happy ending, Forrest is the ultimate sentimental figure. He embodies that noble Hollywood precept, the spiritual superiority of the handicapped. Forrest is not the ranter on the subway or the sullen, overgrown lad at the back of the class. He is -- well, just...