Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sponsor's name was instantly and ominously familiar. Bayer, a developer of cockroach control chemicals, was a subsidiary of IG Farben during World War II. IG Farben was the chemical cartel responsible for the manufacturing of Zyklon B gas, a pesticide used to exterminate victims of he Nazi regime...
...media pieces are neatly separated from each other on white walls illuminated by track lighting; the rooms, distributed over three floors, are distinct and geometric; and in general there is an atmosphere of preserved sterility, even banality. On the landing, under Steven Evans' homage to homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime, is an incongruous dried flower arrangement, left by oversight. One of the best pieces in the exhibition, Christian Boltanski's Le Tiroire (1988), is obscured by the reflection of the main door in its glass surface...
...regrowth of Judaism is not unprecedented. The Jews of Persia survived the violence under the regime of Ahasuerus, the Jews of Europe outlasted the Inquisition, and pogroms failed to wipe out the Jews of the Russian Empire. Yet cruel as generations of persecutions were, all stopped short of the Nazi attempt at genocide. There were 8.3 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before the rise of Hitler. Some 450,000 fled the Nazis before World War II. More than 5 million died in the Holocaust. After the war a few hundred thousand of the survivors left immediately for Israel...
...Germany argue that they have a right, even a duty, to remain. ``If all of us fled Germany,'' says Shlomit Tulgan, a student in Berlin, ``then Hitler would have achieved his desire of making Germany free of Jews. We can't let that happen.'' Serge Klarsfeld, the French Nazi hunter, believes the Jews belong in Eastern Europe despite the Holocaust. ``To live in Cracow, in Prague or in Budapest is not to live with assassins. It is to live with the memory of Jewish life that once flourished there...
Perhaps Auschwitz is simply too monstrous for passions to cool completely; perhaps 50 years' distance is not enough. Auschwitz was by far the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, containing the bones and ashes of the estimated 1.5 million of Hitler's victims who died there--1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles and thousands of others including Gypsies, homosexuals and communists, targeted for annihilation by Hitler's minions. The camp is at once the world's largest cemetery and most gruesome industrial artifact. ``It was an experiment in how to kill the most people in the smallest area...