Word: nazi
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...surgeon, Bettmann was 12 when he began collecting discarded medical illustrations from his father's wastebasket. As curator of rare books at the Berlin State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...popular move in 1944; neither was opposing nukes at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop the first A-bomb when he concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then, in 1955, Rotblat joined Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell...
...trim, sprightly Rotblat has been a celebrity among antinuclear activists for nearly half a century. He first started wrestling with the moral implications of atomic weaponry as a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, working at the University of Liverpool in the early 1940s. "For me," he wrote in an article for the Hiroshima anniversary this past summer, "the decision to become involved in developing the Bomb was painful, and for almost a year I struggled with my conscience. Eventually I concluded, as did most of the other scientists, that we needed to make the Bomb so that it should...
...Four Nazi men and women smile complacently and sip at their coffee in a small European cafe. In the background, Jewish men and women, their mouths open eternally in silent screams, are shoved and herded into a huge gas chamber that had once been a bathhouse. This is "Banality of Evil/Struthof," one of the first works in Judy Chicago's latest exhibit, "The Holocaust Project," currently on display at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum...
...greatest single lesson of the brutal 20th century should be the monumental error of appeasement at Munich. Neville Chamberlain, echoing comments that we hear today from very reputable corners, said the Nazi drive to overtake Czechoslovakia was a quarrel "in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing." Less than two years after the agreement, Europe was engulfed...