Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nazi plunder of Jewish property, possessions and capital was horrible but almost "understandable" [WORLD, Oct. 28]. Victors have got the spoils for millenniums, but Switzerland's masquerade as a neutral safe haven to lure and then steal $3 billion to $7 billion in victims' assets was unprecedented, vile treachery. The Swiss banks should feel humiliated that more than 50 years have passed without their addressing the disposition of Jewish wealth. WILLIAM P. SAUNDERS Bloomfield, Michigan Via E-mail...
DIED. ARTUR AXMANN, 83, head of Hitler's notorious Nazi youth organization; in Berlin. Axmann claimed to have witnessed Hitler's 1945 suicide...
...NAZI LEATHER, BUY ANY OTHER NAME...
...boots and bags are black, shiny and made of tough hide--tough enough to be labeled "Nazi leather" by some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made...
...wartime, American Howard W. Campbell broadcasts hate propaganda for his adopted country, Nazi Germany. Embedded in his scripts, however, is coded information that supposedly aids his native land in its good fight against genocidal nationalism. When peace comes, the issue of regard arises: Was he war criminal or war hero...