Word: nazi
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What makes the Schaeffler case particularly interesting is the timing of the Auschwitz allegations. It may be part of the negative reception of the controversial corporate buyout, originating from a source who may want to damage the Schaeffler family, spreading rumors about its activities during the Nazi period. Indeed, the clan seemed to have been prepared for the arrival of such charges. In early February, after rumors began to appear on the Internet that the Schaeffler clan had Nazi skeletons in its closet, the family made public a study it had commissioned in 2004 on its history during the Nazi...
Germany's Nazi past continues to unsettle its present. Privileged clans and mighty industries alike have subjected themselves to public scrutiny and painful mea culpas over activities and associations before and during World War II. But the latest controversy links the poisoned mementos of Auschwitz to the ongoing global financial crisis in a still unraveling tale of leveraged buyouts, corporate hubris and financial humiliation. (See Auschwitz and other gloomy tourist destinations...
...Italian American, I find it offensive that one would associate Lino with a terrible mafioso just because he is Italian. This is comparable to calling a German housemaster a Nazi, or an African American housemaster a Gangster...
...Williamson, Bishop Richard • apology for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps - though not for believing it - is finally offered...
...problem of violence against Central Asians. "I have received so many e-mails, especially in June of last year. But now I am very worried," admits Kozhevnikova. On Feb. 8, just before a conference on violence in Moscow, Kozhevnikova received an anonymous e-mail from a neo-Nazi group. "It said that for them, it would be more effective to kill people like me, or to kill journalists, than it is to kill immigrants. They said that they might kill me at the conference." She still attended. But, she says, "I am very cautious...