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...uncover the great mysteries of human civilization. Nikko joins his father as a member of the foundation and begins a weekly hour-long search for infinite truth. His journey takes him to the furthest reaches of the globe, bringing him into conflict with such formidable adversaries as a neo-Nazi organization that is planning the rise of the Fourth Reich. Quite frankly, FM is unimpressed. After careful consideration, however, it appears that certain parallels do exist between fact and fiction...
...investigate, a spokesman for Pál Csáky, the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for minority rights, dismissed the findings, saying that similar claims had surfaced in the past and none had proved true. Forced sterilization of the Roma, once known as Gypsies, dates back to the Nazi and communist regimes. But the CRR investigation, based largely on the testimonies of women in Roma settlements across Slovakia, primarily focuses on 110 who were sterilized, or have "strong indications" of having been so, after 1989 when government-sponsored programs targeting the Roma were dismantled. The Roma make up about...
...Nazi war machine steamrolled across Europe in 1940, thousands of Jews sought refuge in the Lithuanian capital of Kaunas, where Sugihara was Japan's vice-consul. Defying orders from Tokyo not to get involved in the refugees' plight, Sugihara wrote illegal visas for 2,000 families, enabling them to escape from the Nazis. After the war, Sugihara resigned from the Foreign Ministry, where his efforts were never acknowledged, let alone praised. He spent the rest of his life broke, hopping from job to job until he died in obscurity in 1986. Since then, a Sugihara revival has taken hold...
Some of his best-known work brought him to the battlefields of World War II, including the Nazi invasion of the Balkans and the fall of Singapore to the Japanese...
...with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...