Word: landsberger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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.../180 B.U./Providence, R.I. Scott Fusco C 5-9/175 Olten, Switz./Burlington, Ma. Guy Gosselin D 5-11/195 Minn-Duluth/Roches ter, Mn. Tony Granato C 5-10/185 Wisconsin/Downers Grove, II. Craig Janney C 6-1/195 B.C./Enfield, Ct. Jim Johannson C 6-1/189 Landsberg, FRG/Rochester, Mn. Brad Jones F 6-1/195 Michigan/Sterling Heights, Mi. Peter Laviolette D 6-2/198 Indianapolis Checkers/Franklin, Ma. Steve Leach F 5-11/180 Wash. Capitals/Lexington, Ma. Brian Leetch D 5-11/185 B.C./Cheshire, Ct. Lane MacDonald F 5-11/187 Harvard/Mequon, Wi. Corey Millen...
...hard to fathom. Though Hess had been an early Nazi zealot, he had never wielded any real power, and he was already behind bars in England when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Ironically, his friendship with Hitler had developed in jail: the two men met in Landsberg Prison after the aborted Nazi putsch in 1923. There Hitler dictated Mein Kampf to Hess. Though Hitler later made Hess his deputy, he never took him seriously or delegated authority to him. At Nuremberg, the judges found Hess not guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity but sentenced...
...first I thought it was just due to outside heat, but then we noticed that it was much hotter in our dorm than in others," said Ruth E. Landsberg, a resident of a second floor Strauss room...
...single handedly obstructed" requests to bomb the railroads leading to these policies. As assistant Secretary of War, he oversaw the concentration camps in Germany. More egregiously, contrary to popular belief, McCloy did not merely rubberstamp the decisions of the Advisory Board for Clemency for War Criminals. According to the Landsberg report, written by McCloy himself in 1951, McCloy commuted the sentences of 10 of the 15 prisoners sentenced to death, and substantially reduced the sentences of others. In explaining his actions, McCloy cited such reasons as "lack of primary responsibility, age, and limited participation" of the convicted criminals...
There he quickly learned English, finished high school in a year and a half, and relearned the ways of civilization. Ruefully, he recalls his reaction when a boy teasingly slipped a banana peel in his pocket: "I swung a Landsberg jailhouse punch at him," acting "as if he wanted to kill [me]." But Pisar had for gotten how to apologize. "I had been in hell too deeply and too long. The next day presented him with two pounds of bananas...