Word: nazi
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...three years in prison, was arrested in November on charges relating to speeches he gave in 1989 in which he contended, among other things, that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Convicted under an Austrian law that makes it a crime to deny or "grossly play down" the Nazi genocide, Irving said he had become a "victim of political theater...
Musical theater has a long history of successful productions that at first glance don't seem particularly fun or uplifting?consider Oliver!'s homeless orphans in Dickensian London, or The Sound of Music's Von Trapp family harmonizing its way out of Nazi-occupied Austria. But in Seoul, novice theater director Jung Sung San is pushing the concept of the unlikely musical to a new extreme. Jung, 36, currently has a cast in rehearsal for a musical about the prison camps of North Korea...
...DIED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 97, former Nazi SS officer accused of executing Italian prisoners of war; in Hamburg, Germany. Known in Italy as the "Butcher of Genoa," Engel was handed a seven-year suspended sentence in 2002 after a German court found him guilty of ordering the massacre of 59 Italian naval commandos on the outskirts of Genoa in 1944. A federal appeals court quashed the conviction in 2004 citing a lack of evidence, and ruled that Engel's advanced age prevented a retrial...
...teacher at Columbia, the late Max Weinreich, took time off from his linguistic research during the Second World War to write “Hitler’s Professors,” documenting the participation of some of Germany’s leading academics in the Nazi movement. This book should lay to rest the notion that there is any necessary correlation between the kind of intelligence that wins Nobel Prizes and the kind of political humility that democracy requires. In fact, because they consider themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the population, academics tend to be uncommonly impatient...
...historical association of non-fictional artistic expression and extreme ideologies. Just as the word “genocide” has stronger social connotations than “mass killing,” the term “propaganda” instantly catapults us to the dark deeds of Nazi Information Minister Joseph Goebbels and the darling of the regime, Leni Riefenstahl, who shot the dubiously acclaimed “Triumph of the Will...