Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chill, rainy afternoon, the simple urn containing the ashes of Jean Moulin was on view at the Memo rial to the Victims of the German Labor Camps near Notre Dame Cathedral. Inside the cement crypt glimmered 200,000 crystal rods-one for each Frenchman who died in the Nazi camps...
...long route to the Pantheon were extinguished. One cafe attempted business as usual with gas lamps, but police entered and blew them out. The colonnaded Pantheon was also dark, but brilliant tricolor searchlights cast a V up into the sky. As a military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them in his full regalia as prefect of the district. His independent spirit soon landed him in prison. After one torture session, during which he refused to sign a document serving Nazi propaganda, he feared that he would...
...grey scarf to hide the scars that remained on his neck from his suicide attempt. Moving about the country with speed and stealth, Moulin managed to weld together mutually mistrustful Frenchmen of the left, right and center. He created a clandestine press, arranged the sabotage and harassment of Nazi detachments, and drew up plans for massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held a Paris meeting of the 16 most important leaders of the underground, who elected him president. But in June 1943, Moulin was captured near...
...Since 1945, German courts have investigated 30,000 accused Nazis, prosecuted 12,882, imprisoned 5,243, sentenced 76 to life imprisonment and twelve to death (the death sentence was abolished in 1949). More than 700 prosecutions are now under way. During the occupation, Allied military courts prosecuted 5,025 Nazi criminals, condemned 486 to death. Russia imposed an estimated 10,000 sentences on German war criminals...
...mystery of life. But it is the 20th century, the age of technological miracle, that has seen the triumph of the Enlightenment and the apparent banishment of God from the universe-even, thanks to Freud, from the human soul. Writing from his German prison cell in 1944. the anti-Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer defined it as "the world come of age." in which "man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis...