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...wasn’t until August 1998 that UBS finally agreed to compensate victims’ families. And even as the bank was negotiating the settlement with Jewish groups, UBS began to shred the World War II-era archives of a subsidiary that had maintained close ties to the Nazi regime. (UBS said that the shredding was a “deplorable mistake” and apologized.) Given that UBS has already expressed contrition for its Holocaust history, it is especially outrageous that the bank would again ignore the plight of genocide victims...
...year-old prince, third in line to the British throne, has been embroiled in several embarrassing incidents over the past few years. He was photographed sporting a Nazi Africa Korps uniform, replete with swastika armband, at a costume party in January 2005, and has fielded allegations from the British press for smoking marijuana and underage drinking. Video footage surfaced earlier in October that appeared to show him snorting vodka...
...What's fueling the debate over Môquet's letter is precisely what Môquet considered that higher purpose to be. In the view of Sarkozy and his backers, it was overthrowing Nazi domination for the freedom and liberty of the French nation; to others, it was overthrowing the very market system Sarkozy is seeking to bolster as he reforms France's welfare state. The youthful Môquet, many observers note, was a communist committed to revolution; a poem he wrote on the day of his arrest promised to "kill capitalism," and sought to give heart...
...cynical attempt to advance his own ideological agenda. At issue is Sarkozy's decision to have every school in France stage annual Oct. 22 readings of the letter written by 17-year-old Resistance member Guy Môquet penned to his family shortly before his Nazi captors executed him in 1941. The letter begins with a tender call to "My dearest Mother, my beloved little brother, my beloved father", informing them, "I'm going to die!". It ends with the selfless and uplifting, "Of course I would have preferred to live. But what I want with all my heart...
...years has been a campaign to root out the vestiges of communist officialdom, notably from Poland's military intelligence and foreign service; Jaroslaw says he needs four more years to root out the uklad. Pawel Zalewski, a senior PIS official, likens the effort to the French purge of Nazi collaborators after liberation in 1944. "It's a question of security and trust at home and abroad," he told TIME. Polish social historian Adam Mielczarek observes that the PIS appeals to ordinary Poles in the same way that the Solidarity movement did in the early 1980s: by telling them "that there...