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...underground movements harried the Germans -- sometimes at a horrendous cost. On May 27, 1942, two Czechoslovak agents based in London who had been parachuted into Czechoslovakia five months earlier were activated. Their target: Reinhard Heydrich, "the Butcher of Prague," the SS Obergruppenfuhrer who was a major organizer of the Holocaust that was engulfing Europe's Jews. The Czechoslovaks killed Heydrich in a bomb attack as he drove into Prague, but the retribution was terrible: the Nazis murdered 1,300 Czechoslovaks immediately; 3,000 Jews were sent to Poland to be killed; and then the Germans razed the village of Lidice...
...never held a regular job. He has made his living by selling hate materials and trolling for contributions for various racist organizations. He wore a swastika in college, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People, advocated dividing America into separate ethnic nations, denied that the Holocaust happened. His reason for studying German in college was to be able to read Hitler's Mein Kampf in the original...
During the Nazi Holocaust, gays, like Jews and gypsies, were herded into concentration camps. Today, on a regular basis, gays emerging from gay bars are assaulted. Here at Harvard, a student was reportedly "gay-bashed" at last year's Eliot House Fete. Last week, a Lowell house student's door was vandalized in a display of anti-gay hatred. And many anti-gay incidents still go unreported...
...imperious tycoon, decorated war hero and Holocaust survivor was last seen alive in the predawn light, pacing on the deck of his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, as it cruised in the calm waters of the Atlantic. Only late in the morning, after a phone call to his stateroom went unanswered, was he reported missing. About six hours afterward, Maxwell's 6-ft. 2-in., 280-lb. body was found floating naked...
...working on an opera in Yiddish based on a story that grew out of the Holocaust," he says. "It's the story of a person who had a chance to survive but didn...