Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atrocities of ethnic conflict -- today, Bosnia -- are described in terms of death camps and genocide. But this use of terms borrowed from the Holocaust betrays a poverty of language. The Nazi achievement lay not in building barbaric prison camps or seizing villages through expulsion and terror. That is an old story, terrible but old: the story of ethnic war. The Nazi achievement lay in constructing an industry of death never before -- or since -- seen. An industry of continental size complete with railways, death camps, gas chambers and crematoria. An industry whose raw material was Jews and whose product was corpses...
...colonel's parents lost seven children in the Nazi death camps. But the parents survived. After the war they made their way to Israel, where they conceived a son (the colonel), whom they called their "miracle child." Though they doted on him and loved him dearly (as may be imagined), they sent him off at an early age to be raised on a kibbutz -- away from his parents. For the Holocaust, the mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory...
...late Saturday night, painful memories were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of starvation and deportation -- roughly the same number as those trapped in Srebrenica -- confronted Nazi troops in a final, hopeless battle. Back then the outside knew little and could do less about what was afoot. But the horror of the last days of Srebrenica could not be ignored by a world kept abreast of every twist and turn in the bloody Bosnian conflict. Despite...
...this be alienation, make the most of it. We could have used a little more in, say, Nazi Germany. If history teaches us anything, it is to beware people who know the truth. Appleyard and his neoconservative friends moan about the demise of moral and cultural authority and bash liberal democracy because it fails to choose. But the failure to choose is itself a choice. What it chooses is that people are, or can be, grownups. That too is a value, the notion that we all individually or collectively may be the salvation of one another. Cosmic ignorance does...
...confusing direction, on the other hand, presses on with a vengeance. The audience cannot make sense of the of the bizarre melting pot of images Williams assembles. He indulges in several impressionics tableaux: the opening pageant, a procession of religios penitents, a neo- Nazi interrogation scene. Are we to take the different scenes as individual sketches, held together by a skeleton plot, or does some dramatic unity lurk in these disparte vignettes...