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Germany's Nazi past continues to unsettle its present. Privileged clans and mighty industries alike have subjected themselves to public scrutiny and painful mea culpas over activities and associations before and during World War II. But the latest controversy links the poisoned mementos of Auschwitz to the ongoing global financial crisis in a still unraveling tale of leveraged buyouts, corporate hubris and financial humiliation. (See Auschwitz and other gloomy tourist destinations...
...Italian American, I find it offensive that one would associate Lino with a terrible mafioso just because he is Italian. This is comparable to calling a German housemaster a Nazi, or an African American housemaster a Gangster...
...Williamson, Bishop Richard • apology for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps - though not for believing it - is finally offered...
...that the rise in unemployment has nothing to do with the death of 14 Central Asian migrant workers in Russia in January. "The number of deaths is lower than the same time last year," she points out. Instead, she says, the financial crisis "is just an excuse for neo-Nazi groups to kill immigrants." She points out that another wave of killings of Central Asian workers began well before the financial crisis hit, in the latter part of 2008. "Early last year, we were getting reports of Central Asian workers killed, almost daily...
...problem of violence against Central Asians. "I have received so many e-mails, especially in June of last year. But now I am very worried," admits Kozhevnikova. On Feb. 8, just before a conference on violence in Moscow, Kozhevnikova received an anonymous e-mail from a neo-Nazi group. "It said that for them, it would be more effective to kill people like me, or to kill journalists, than it is to kill immigrants. They said that they might kill me at the conference." She still attended. But, she says, "I am very cautious...