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PARIS--The trial of Klaus Barbie, the last Nazi likely to face French judges, which opens today will likely stir again the lingering shame, sorrow and pity which France has sought for decades to forget...
...France, the question is whether Nazi atrocities are to be underlined in red in French memories or whether, with a passing generation, they will slip into the gray of history...
...individual fate of one or another Nazi seems to me beside the point," she said. "What interests me is the memory of history...
There was a time, after the elections of 1948, when the English speakers tried to resist the Afrikaners' complete political takeover. Some 250,000 mainly English war veterans, bitter about their antagonists' widespread pro- Nazi sympathies, formed a paramilitary organization called the Torch Commando (with Oppenheimer financing) to oppose the Afrikaners. There was even talk of secession in the pre-eminently English-speaking province of Natal in 1953 and again in 1960-61, when the Nationalists declared South Africa a republic and led it out of the Commonwealth. But eventually the English minority fell back on the comfortable tradition...
...tarmac and led up a ramp to an Ilyushin Il-62M airliner bound for Prague. Officials from the Soviet Union took custody of him there and shipped him to the Estonian capital of Tallinn. Linnas was convicted in absentia and sentenced to death 25 years ago for running a Nazi death camp in Estonia during World War II. And now he had to face his fate...