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Some advocates of reparations for slavery find precedent in the compensation paid by companies that employed forced laborers in Nazi Germany or the U.S. government's payments to Japanese Americans who were wrongly interned and deprived of property during World War II. But these cases, in which payments were made directly to the victims of injustice or to their immediate families by the exact agent who harmed them, are different enough from that of American slavery to highlight why reparations for slavery are infeasible...
...Haider resigned Monday following weekend E.U. meetings in Brussels in which representatives of the other 14 E.U. member nations shunned Austrian heads of state. Tuesday morning Justice Minister Michael Krueger, a fellow Freedom party member who's taken heat for praising Nazi policies, followed suit and also resigned. But E.U. leaders realize that the Freedom party remains an unsettling force in Austria, enjoying 33 percent support nationwide - a popularity fueled by Austrian resentment over the E.U.'s shunning of Vienna. So while Haider may fade into the background in the short run - he said he will concentrate full-time...
Throughout World War II both the Nazi and Soviet armies achieved significant unit cohesion. Admittedly, there was nothing fuzzy or friendly about the means employed. Stalin had gunners open fire on deserters. The SS brutalized inhabitants of areas through which the Wehrmacht passed, leaving no doubt in the German soldiers' mind that local capture was not a viable option. German troops were also informed that desertion would result in retribution against their families. The moral repugnance of such techniques notwithstanding, they almost certainly contributed to tangible differences in military performance per capita. For every enemy soldier the American trooper killed...
...Colonel de Maumort. A memoir of the eponymous character, the novel is a testament to reflection and self-examination. Maumort, born in 1870 to an old landowning family in the Perche region of Northern France, strives to illuminate his past while his family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing the intense light of reason on the past, he tries--at times desperately--to find an explanation for the moral outrages of his time. With his classical education shaping his intellectual proclivities, he cannot shake the vestigial Enlightenment belief in an underlying order...
...people who were important to him, sounding their virtues and explicating their faults, with deliberately objective scrutiny. He tries to account for every failing, to explore the plausibility of every belief, and his memoirs read almost as a series of complete and independent episodes. Even when he describes the Nazi officials that use his home as a barracks for their squadron, he tries to transcend his liberal prejudices against these bigoted fascists in order to discover the tenability and integrity of their system of belief...