Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polls suggest more than half of France will follow the trial closely and perhaps three-quarters of all French people think that Barbie must be judged, however embarrassing the testimony. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor, echoed the thoughts of many French in a recent television interview: The verdict is not important, Wiesel said, but the events must be brought to light...
Will the same now be said of Klaus Barbie, who was less important but whose work was no less cruel? Barbie's trial is bound to attract worldwide attention. People are already saying this will be the last great courtroom drama to result from the Holocaust. They may be right...
...speech, Waldheim made no direct reference to accusations that he was linked to World War II atrocities in Greece and Yugoslavia. He did not mention the Nazi Holocaust or Austria's role in the war. Germany annexed Austria in 1938, and some Austrians served in the German army during World...
...contemplated not just using nuclear weapons but using them first, to stop a Warsaw Pact invasion. If all the nukes were gone, the Soviets might be deterred from invading Europe only if they could be convinced that the U.S. would fire its intercontinental missiles in response, touching off a holocaust. And whether the Kremlin believes the U.S. would do so, many West Europeans...
...know why this century has such terrible events happen? The Turks killing two million Armenians, the Holocaust, Hitler killing most of the Jews in Europe, Stalin killing fifteen million Ukrainians, nuclear destruction unleashed, the final war apparently inevitable? It is because God agreed to let the Great Prince Satan have his way with men for a hundred years--this one hundred years, the twentieth century...