Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sachenhausen, Buchenwald, and various other Nazi death camps, the inmates were identified by several insignia: Jewish victims wore the tragic yellow star; political prisoners wore a red triangle; green triangles identified the infamous Kapo, criminal trustees who assisted the S.S. guards. Homosexuals wore pink triangles...
...modern Germany, the survivors of such mutilation remain as tangible evidence of this forced "therapy," and as witness to the ultimate consequences of collective "diagnosis." The post-war West German government provided some compensation to the few Jewish and political survivors of the camps, but homosexual victims were not compensated as an oppressed group. Laws against sexual variation instituted by the Nazi regime remained in West German legal codes for years after the war, according to James L. Steakley in his book The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany...
...accused the U.S. embassy's current first secretary, Joseph Presel, and his predecessor, Melvyn Levitsky, of heading a spy ring that persuaded leading dissidents to provide classified defense material for the Central Intelligence Agency. Curiously, the Americans and their alleged accomplices-Engineers Vladimir Slepak and Anatoli Shcharansky-are Jewish. In talks with Western newsmen, the two engineers promptly denied the allegations. So did State Department sources in Washington, who called Izvestia's charges "preposterous...
...Soviet Jews and other minorities trying to obtain emigration visas." Tass responded that the gesture was "pure balderdash" and claimed that "98.4%" of those who have sought to leave Russia in the past five years have been allowed to go. Substantiating the Senate's concern, however, two Jewish "refuseniks" (would-be emigrants not allowed to leave the country) who attempted to contact U.S. embassy officials in Moscow were manhandled and hustled away by security agents...
...sure knowledge of how to build the atom bomb was apparently consorting with leftist ideologues and terrorists responsible for such deeds as the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe last June. Was it possible that Dr. Klaus Robert Traube, the absentminded, tousle-haired son of a Jewish dentist who had committed suicide in 1936 rather than go on living under Nazi rule, had passed on secrets to his radical friends...