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...staples of thrillers in the past two decades has been the idea of a secret Nazi order waiting to move back into place in Germany...
When West German President Richard von Weizsaecker was invited to speak at the 1986 Harvard Commencement, Dershowitz staged a one-man protest against the appearance. (The index entry reads "Dershowitz, Alan, protests Nazis honored at Harvard, 90-91.") Weizsaecker's crime? As an attorney, he defended his father, a high-ranking Nazi diplomat, in a war crimes trial. Representing an unpopular criminal defendant! Why of all the heinous, rotten, despicable acts...
Thus begins the latest chapter in the tangled history of GAF. Seized by the U.S. government in 1942 for its links to Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben, infamous inventor of the poison gas used in Hitler's concentration camps, the company was owned by the feds for the next two decades. During the early 1980s, GAF fought a bitter two-year battle in boardrooms, courtrooms and newspaper ads against Heyman's ultimately victorious takeover effort. Since then, in the words of one analyst, "Heyman made a lot of money, and he made a lot of people a lot of money...
...NAZI VIDEOS. A big hit with young German and Austrian skinheads, these underground video games polish such management skills as how to run a death camp more efficiently...
...most dramatic test of will between the two houses of Parliament in 42 years. At issue was the fate of an unknown number of Nazi collaborators who immigrated to Britain after World War II. Previously they could only be charged with war crimes in Britain if they were British citizens when they committed their offenses. Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, railed against the bill when it was sent to the Queen above the peers' protest. "This is not a house of wimps," he declared. "It is the House of Lords. We are expected by the public...