Word: nazi
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While I was making my way through yesterday's New York Times, an article on page four caught my attention. Its headline read, "Nazi Case Forces Italy to Revisit Sore Subject," and it concerned the upcoming retrial of Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal responsible for the murders of 355 Italian civilians. A military court had found him not guilty, on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired on the crime, but the outcry in Rome, coupled with an extradition request on behalf of the German government, prompted Italy's highest court to allow a retrial. Priebke...
...Similarly, the debate question exemplified the recklessness with which people tend to throw around the vocabulary of mass-destruction. You want to talk about the discrimination that exists in the criminal justice system, you call it a "genocide." You disagree with someone's brand of politics, you affix the Nazi swastika to his or her door--that seems to be the name of the game...
...real meanings--they refer to one of the most monstrous events ever to occur in the annals of man. I am well acquainted with it: Many members of my family were among its victims. Any tragedy is not a "Holocaust" or a "genocide," nor is every right-winger a "Nazi" or a "Fascist." Using these terms where they are not applicable trivializes the ideas they express...
...Nazi--a member of the German Nazi Party, or a contemporary who holds to its principles, namely the superiority of the "Aryan race," the need to exterminate the Jewish People, the need for totalitarian control of the state...
...trust and betrayal. He marched up to Capitol Hill last week to try anew to make Congress and the nation face the fact that American soldiers had been left behind at the end of the Korean War--to die, to be executed, to be used as guinea pigs in "Nazi-style" medical experiments. Such suggestions have often been raised but rarely credited. Corso had tried to give his account to the Senate in 1992, but got nowhere. Last week, backed by newly declassified intelligence reports, memoranda and other documents from the top levels of the Eisenhower Administration, he laid...