Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From standard Communist propaganda, or the much-praised movie 'Judgment at Nuremberg, one might conclude that West Germans have spent the past decade merely brushing Nazi crimes under the carpet. Not so. Obviously many Nazis have escaped justice, but since 1945 some 13,000 of Hitler's henchmen have gone on trial in West Germany, and about 5,000 have been sentenced to jail (there is no death penalty in West Germany). Today, some 40 separate trials are under way, with 90 defendants, including prison-camp commandants, guards, gas-chamber operators and plain Nazi bureaucrats, who for years...
...Documents. Ferreting out these criminals is the fulltime task of the Central Office for Nazi Crimes, a Wrest German government investigation agency organized in 1958 to coordinate the faltering prosecution efforts of the separate West German Länder (states). Operating in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, the Central Office includes a judge or prosecuting attorney from each of the ten Länder as well as West Berlin, plus a staff of 25 specialists who search out and study cache after cache of Hitler's wartime records. Their goal is always the same: new names and new evidence. The Central...
Seventeen years after the man whose name became a synonym for traitor was tried and shot for his Nazi collaboration, Norwegians learned the whereabouts of Vidkun Quisling's ashes. Long locked up by the Norwegian government in the fear that neo-Nazis might turn a burial site into a shrine, Quisling's ashes were finally released two years ago and laid to rest by his widow Maria in the family plot near Skien...
...Louisiana State University, joined the A.P.'s Buffalo bureau in 1937 after a reporting stint on the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times (where he covered the assassination of Huey P. Long). Sent to Europe in 1940, he arrived in Copenhagen just in time to witness the Nazi invasion of Denmark. As a war correspondent, he covered the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, also served in Greece, the Balkans and Austria. He was recalled to A.P.'s New York headquarters...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Allied attack on Cassino in film clips and narrative. Special guests are General Mark Clark and Nazi General Fridolin von Senger, who fought it out there. Repeat...