Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They tracked down a costume-store proprietor named Peter Breuer, who recalled renting the Nazi garb to some men who told him they wanted to write a story on his shop. "I had absolutely no suspicion," said Breuer, "not the way they fooled around, laughing themselves silly while they took the photographs." Next, Munich police rounded up three youths who claimed that they had been talked into posing as a joke. Back in Paris, Paris Match Reporter Jean Taousson and Editor André Lacaze casually admitted the hoax. "The photos may imply stronger political ideas than those people really hold...
...justification, the wrenching attempt to be fair while partisan in judging and convicting the man-all of it is replayed in Hausner's tautly written pages. He admits his purpose plainly: neither the Jews nor the rest of the world should rest easily as long as the Nazi impulse still festers among men. And it does fester. Hausner quotes letters in his files from people around the world, including the U.S., applauding the likes of Eichmann...
...Might was right; power was virtue; the greatest sin was weakness." To obey had been Eichmann's highest object. Hausner's epitaph is that Eichmann died "as he lived-a pagan, a polished, finished and unalloyed product of the Nazi system...
...wine flowed freely, and the old Nazi cronies, safe in Buenos Aires, reminisced about the great days under the Führer. "I am no longer being pursued," boasted one Ricardo Klement...
...remained for a seemingly minor incident in Jerusalem to illuminate the quality about Eichmann that Historian Hannah Arendt has characterized "the banality of evil." One day after a court session, Eichmann was shown a film: here were Jewish victims packed like cattle into trains; here were Nazi execution squads shooting down rows of naked men, women and children, who fell writhing into trenches that they themselves had dug; here were literally thousands of corpses being bulldozed into mass graves. Suddenly, in the darkened room, Prosecutor Hausner heard Eichmann stir. Hausner wondered if the ice-cold technician of the final solution...