Word: nazis
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Addressing Israel's parliament, Austria's president apologized today for his country's role in the Holocaust. Austrians have rarely acknowledged the fact that "many of the worst henchmen in the Nazi dictatorship were Austrians," President Thomas Klestil said. "Today, we Austrians recognize that an acknowledgment of the full truth was long overdue." The speech came at the end of Klestil's three-day visit to Israel -- the first by an Austrian head of state. For years, Austria denied persecuting Jews during World War II, even though 70,000 died within its borders. The relationship between Israel and Austria...
...around the country are coming under increasing scrutiny, raising fresh examples in the ongoing debate over experimental ethics. How can scientists be held accountable for harm to an experimental subject? Must individual rights always supersede the quest for knowledge? "This is an issue that has been around since the Nazi experiments," says Susan Knapp, the APA's director of publications. "If the conditions for a research project were unethical but the science is good, what do you do with...
Leibovitz was a man of irony and rhetorical excess. A devoted Orthodox Jew, he relentlessly campaigned for the separation of synagogue and state. A witness to the unspeakable horrors of Nazi Germany, Leibovitz infuriated the Israeli public by referring to Israeli soldiers as "Judeo-Nazis...
...give too many people a second chance? Kurt Waldheim survived his past as a Nazi to head the United Nations. Yasser Arafat has weathered a reputation as a terrorist long enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfonse D'Amato is serving out one more term, not in a penitentiary for corruption, but as New York's U.S. Senator. A couple of years ago, a former Ku Klux Klan leader as close to the governorship of Louisiana as North is to the Senate seat...
...Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans has siphoned off at least a third of Robb's members nationwide. "This group is more likely to embrace the neo- Nazi, swastika-wearing segment of extremists," says Klanwatch director Danny Welch...