Word: nazi
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...exoneration. "I am most grateful to the President," he said. "All charges are now refuted. Nothing remains in doubt." But even as he tried to put the matter behind him, his son Gerhard, 38, stirred up new embarrassment. At a news conference in Washington last week, Gerhard implied that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the current U.N. Secretary-General, had accepted his father's explanation of his wartime record. Both Pérez de Cuéllar and Wiesenthal denied that they had formed a final judgment about the case. Potentially graver damage to the candidate...
...after being wounded in 1941. Faced with evidence to the contrary, he has since admitted returning to active service as an army interpreter in Greece and Yugoslavia. Nonetheless, he maintains that he was not aware that Greek Jews were being deported to death camps or of the extent of Nazi massacres of Yugoslav partisans...
...former Secretary-General's war record has forced Austrians to confront long-suppressed but painful questions about their country's support for Hitler. Unlike West Germans, most Austrians have not had to analyze their role in World War II. Although the country had 600,000 registered members of Nazi organizations by the end of the war, the Allied powers declared that Austria had been the first victim of Hitler's aggression when he annexed the country...
After he went to the West, Horowitz saw his father only once more, in Berlin in 1936. The visit proved to have fatal consequences. Returning home despite the pleas of his son, Samuel was arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi agent; his fluency in German and his trip to Berlin were used as evidence against him. He was exiled to Siberia, where he died...
...Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi, a role many of those who had wilted under the "Otto-crat's" frequent tongue lashings regarded as entirely appropriate...