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...seems to be thriving, and I did support him in making himself available for a second term." Annan is painfully aware of the steep price that a life devoted to public service can command. Her uncle, Raoul Wallenberg, the diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, disappeared in 1944, the year she was born. Although she never knew him, "the absence of Raoul was always present in my life," she says. "His last letter from Budapest was to congratulate my mother, his sister, on my birth...
...glimpses I've gotten of Rusty and Andrea Yates make me think of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Arendt's personification of such evil was Adolph Eichmann, the orderly and seemingly mild-mannered Nazi bureaucrat who helped orchestrate the killing of millions. The Yates's, too, in their own way, seemed somehow deeply and disturbingly ordinary...
...reappraisal of the generation that fought in World War II, Richard Schickel wrote that the war was considered "a good war" only when we learned about the Nazi genocide [VIEWPOINT, June 4]. This is revisionism at best. The war was considered the ultimate battle of freedom vs. tyranny because the Nazis had taken over most of Europe and, with the aid of their Japanese allies, were set on nothing short of total world domination. Every American, in or out of the service, was keenly aware of this. To say the U.S. fighting forces were exhibiting only "mindless personal courage" because...
...Prime Number $7000 in compensation is entitled to each of 1 million survivors of Nazi slave-labor camps, from a joint fund created by German industry and government...
...Before he was 20 years old, Oliver Lee had lived in Nationalist China, Nazi Germany, the British colony of Mauritius and Iran under the Shah's rule...