Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing. Having launched himself upon the course, Stangl did a giant slalom down the slippery slope and before too long found himself working as commandant of Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland. There, Stangl presided over the death of 900,000 Jews...
...took Hitler to win Lucky his freedom. After Pearl Harbor, German U-boats off the U.S. coast were sinking merchant ships regularly. U.S. intelligence suspected they were aided by spies or Nazi sympathizers. Then the Normandie, a French liner being retrofitted into a troop ship, sank in the Hudson River, sparking fears of sabotage...
...season to be sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology...
After waiting more than 50 years, the world is finally beginning to come to grips with some of the many waves of disruption and destruction visited upon the victims, survivors and heirs of the Nazi Holocaust. The latest effort at restitution -- based on good intentions but relying only on good intentions -- comes out of a Washington conference of 44 countries and more than a dozen Jewish, cultural and business groups. The conferees agreed on a set of guidelines to retrieve and return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and also to return communal property -- from former synagogues and schools...
Before the trip, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan said that "Japan has never completely abandoned its militaristic past in the same way as Germany with the Nazis. If it were to do so, China and other Asian nations would not have to keep reminding Japan of history so often." Tang's statement, drawing a parallel between the terror of Nazi violence and the Japanese violence, effectively evokes the degree of resentment many Chinese feel. How can a people so humiliated be expected to forget about history when Japan has not been confronted head...