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When the Italian author Primo Levi was in Auschwitz, a guard told him, "Hier ist kein warum." (Here is no why.) He was right. That was the terror, the mystery and the evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiroshima and the Time Machine | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Ruth Rogers and Elise Goedeke, both 1G, frightened by the prowler who was naked below the waist, barricaded themselves in the living room. Dorothy Kein 1G, was ironing in the kitchen during the ruckus. "I thought it was a mouse they were talking about," she explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Man at Large | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

...weeks ago a huge billboard covered with propaganda posters of the Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (SED) attracted unusual attention in the heart of bomb-shattered Dresden in the Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Grave Election | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...while a spry, blond boy about three and a half feet high stood gaping at me, as his kind in Berlin will. When I had said goodbye and turned to walk toward the mess, he came up, grinned, took my hand and said, "Du sprichst doch Deutsch. Hast du kein Kaugummi für mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE WAR AND DIETRICH | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...kein Vaterland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood-thinking | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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