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...knowledge of local history: "This is where the famous bandit Luis Candelas used to hide, Aline. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess, and lengthens her name by marrying a Spanish nobleman, Luis Figuera y Perez de Guzman el Bueno...
...Plessis wound up by linking Treurnicht with Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), many of whose followers support the Conservatives. He said that he was reminded of a puppet show in which the man pulling the strings was the AWB leader. But it was Colin Eglin, head of the Progressive Federal Party, who said aloud what many in the House of Assembly must have been thinking: "Here we have a Nationalist government that believes in race classification, group areas, apartheid in schools, hospitals, housing and constitutional provisions, being attacked for being too liberal. What...
...measure, it was an extraordinary moment. Accused War Criminal Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyons," was calmly answering as presiding Judge Andre Cerdini probed his career with the Nazi SS, his work for U.S. Army Intelligence after the war, his flight to South America in 1951 and, finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim...
...unrepentant former Nazi was later asked to explain his philosophy but declined, saying, "I cannot explain in two words what National Socialism was." He denied harboring any hatred for groups the Nazis identified as "inferior races." Declared Barbie: "I have no hatred for these minorities . . . I did my work under the direction of my superiors...
...perished. His name is guaranteed to live in French infamy for one deed alone, the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance hero and Charles de Gaulle's representative to the underground. But because the statute of limitations has run out on many of his crimes, the career Nazi official will not stand trial for most of the outrages he is known to have committed. Instead, he is charged with four "crimes against humanity" that remain punishable indefinitely, though no longer by the death penalty, which was outlawed in 1981. The four...