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Born in 1912 and educated at Oxford's Balliol College, Southern later studied in Paris and Munich before returning to Oxford shortly before World War II. His books include "The Making of the Middle Ages," which has been translated into several languages, "Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages," and "Medieval Humanism and Other Studies," which received the 1970 Royal Society of Literature Award...
...Joseph Ratzinger, 49, a well-known conservative theology professor in Germany who became Archbishop of Munich only two months...
...changed his name to Aerbel and now lives in Herzliya, was a member of an Israeli "hit team" that in 1973 killed an Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also...
Squirreled away in a two-room Munich apartment, Kaplan's cache has piqued the curiosity of Western intelligence officers and historians. Kaplan claims to have retrieved from Czechoslovakia 14,000 pages of personal notes, photocopies and microfilms of documents, many of them sensitive and some, he says, highly explosive...
...know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than 6 million people, in the process employing badly needed transport facilities and millions of work hours. Helmut Krausnick, director of Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, has concluded: "The extermination policy was decided upon by Hitler ... The unleashing of the terror rested on Hitler's explicit orders...