Word: nazis
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William D. Denson, a Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate and chief prosecutor for the U.S. in the Nazi war crimes trials in Dachau, Germany, died of heart failure Sunday at his home in Lawrence...
...hiding him from concentration camp guards. It takes a monumental risk by using a great deal of comedy in an unamusing environment: The father creates a fantasy world for his child in which the child will win a real army tank if he can successfully hide from the Nazi officials...
Bonnie Phillips has been called an eco-nazi. Twice, logging trucks in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest northeast of Seattle have run her off the road. She shrugs. Washington and Oregon are where the big wave of U.S. logging ran out of room, and the timber wars there--between loggers and environmentalists over uncut remnants of ancient Douglas fir and hemlock forests--are not beanbag fights...
REWARD FOR A "RIGHTEOUS GENTILE" Christoph Meili, a watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, tasted fame in January 1997 when he revealed that the bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group...
Stymied intelligence agents turned to the underworld for help. Lansky, known in the '30s for breaking heads at pro-Nazi meetings, acted as liaison and was allowed to visit Luciano. Lucky put the word out to cooperate, and formerly mute dockworkers, fishermen and hoodlums became the eyes and ears of naval intelligence. Soon eight German spies, who had landed by U-boat, were arrested, and explosives, maps and blueprints for sabotage were seized...