Word: nazis
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Shortly after his liberation from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, a gaunt and grieving survivor made what now seems an uncharacteristic vow. He promised that he would not speak for at least ten years of the horrors he had witnessed. The silence was kept, but when the words finally emerged, they came in a torrent. Novels, essays, speeches and lectures all spoke tirelessly of the need to rescue the Holocaust from the silence of history. Last week Elie Wiesel's words of witness were honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace, which carries with it an award...
...THUNDEROUS world applause Neville Chamberlain walked away from a summit conference in Munich with Adolph Hitler, having reached a non-aggression pact with the threatening Nazi power. He was hailed in Britain and across Europe as a diplomat of unsurpassed greatness, one who could bargain with and control even the world's greatest menace without risking the atrocities of the first world...
...last week as the retired Cleveland auto mechanic was indicted in Jerusalem. Demjanjuk, 66, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," murderer of more than 800,000 people at the World War II Treblinka death camp in Poland, denies having been there. He is being held in the prison where Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged...
...tiny Freedom Party has long counted ex-Nazis among its ranks. Last week, however, party liberals found themselves outnumbered and outgunned by an ultraconservative, xenophobic "national" wing that is nostalgic about the Nazi era. Vranitzky apparently found early elections less risky than a partnership with Haider...
...nigh impossible. Not only did he have to create an effective means of commanding a mixture of U.S. and British armed services, but he was also compelled to walk a narrow line between the differing objectives promoted by Roosevelt and Churchill. The decision to launch a huge invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on which the Allies uneasily agreed, implied a shifting of resources from the offensive in Italy, which the British vehemently opposed...