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During World War II, 100,000 German troops were unable to dislodge Serb fighters from the local mountains. Yet Stakic, like other Serbian officials, failed to see the irony of this role reversal, or of the Serbs' use of the Nazi term ethnic cleansing. He insisted the Serbs were only uprooting Muslim "extremists" when they ravaged Kozarac. Look at Cela, he said, a nearby village of 1,200 Muslims and 500 Serbs where both are living in model harmony...
There is not even that semblance of normality in the village of Celinac, some miles farther south. The hamlet is officially off-limits to all outsiders. A decree issued by the Celinac municipality gives the Muslim population a "special status" similar to that of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. All Muslims must observe a 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. Muslims are "not allowed to stay in the street, in restaurants and other public places." Muslims are forbidden to swim in the rivers, to fish or hunt, to use or drive motor vehicles, to be in groups of more than...
This was the key problem of Johnson's last years. He and Krake fled Scandinavia before the Nazi advance. They arrived in New York in 1938. Johnson applied for a grant to revisit the scenes of his childhood to "paint Negro people," as he put it, "in their natural environment," meaning by "natural" the rural South. The money didn't appear, but he painted the pictures anyway without leaving Manhattan. For the next seven years of his life, Johnson worked in a style that oscillated between folk art and caricature. On the whole, his images of life and manners...
JOHN NANCE GARNER (1940). As F.D.R. dithered over whether to run for a third term, Garner, who had opposed Roosevelt's pro-labor New Deal policies and his attempt to pack the Supreme Court, entered the presidential race himself. With the Nazi threat to Europe looming larger in the summer of 1940, Roosevelt engineered his own renomination and shunted Garner aside in favor of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, a former Republican but a loyal New Dealer...
...evidence is potentially so explosive that the hearings, which could last several weeks, have been compared in impact to the postwar Nuremberg trials of Germany's Nazi leaders. But Yeltsin's men say they have no desire to start a witch-hunt against specific party officials, including Gorbachev. "There are no victors and no vanquished," says Shakhrai. "People should be tried only for criminal actions, not because they were members of the party nomenklatura." Another team lawyer, Andrei Makarov, puts it more succinctly: "We do not want to turn these hearings into a political show...