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Ever since its creation as a separate nation in 1949, East Germany has refused to pay reparations to survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. Unlike West Germany, which has dispensed some $43 billion in compensation to Israel and to Jews around the world, East Germany has argued that it had no responsibility for crimes committed under Hitler's Third Reich. Last week, after nine months of negotiations with the World Jewish Congress in New York City, East Germany agreed to pay $100 million to Holocaust survivors "in need of material assistance...
Erich Honecker, General Secretary of East Germany's Communist Party, also announced that his government would rebuild the Oranienburgerstrass e Synagogue, prewar Berlin's largest Jewish house of worship, which was ravaged by Nazi mobs during the Kristallnacht violence of 1938. The East German leader cautioned that his country might have to dole out the money in installments, since it lacked the hard currency to pay survivors all at once...
...than the rule. Most graduate students say they know few individual teaching fellows who have used Harvard's training resources. And University Marshal Richard M. Hunt is considered an anomaly because he allows every TF in his course, Literature and Arts C-45, "Culture and Society from Weimar to Nazi Germany," to give at least one lecture. Many teaching fellows say they have given only one or two--if any--lectures during their graduate school careers...
Thus there was widespread shock last week when it was alleged that Nachmann had embezzled millions of dollars from interest earned by reparations funds provided by the West German government for victims of Nazi persecution. Said Heinz Galinski, 75, Nachmann's successor as council chairman: "This is one of the darkest hours for the Jewish community since...
Among the band's estimated 200 titles, all in English: a version of Stormy Weather that describes British ships "sinking all the time." According to Drummer Freddie Brocksieper, 75, the players joined the band for purely practical reasons. Says he: "No jazz musician could be a believing Nazi. It was completely against the grain. We played to save our lives...