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...violence has chilling resonance in West Germany, where small neo-Nazi groups have seized the race issue and made it their own. Turkish immigrants regularly receive threatening letters telling them to leave Germany or be hounded out. An outfit calling itself the Prince Eugen Battle Group (named for a brutal Austrian field marshal who led a major assault against the Turks in the late 17th century) has set its sights on Turkish teachers in West Berlin schools. "Can't you understand we [Germans] don't want anything to do with you," says one of their milder letters. "Pack...
...Pope can afford to forgive his would-be assassin., That is his right as an individual. His action is also a manifesto for his flock. But do not tell me that those who endured the Nazi furor are supposed to follow the papal example and forgive the mass killings. The victims' ashes and bones, scattered in graves unmarked by a cross or David's star, would be desecrated by such a gesture...
Born in Shanghai, China, Tribe is the son of Polish Jews who fled both Soviet and Nazi persecution. The family emigrated to San Francisco when he was five. A gifted child, he completed high school at 16 and majored in mathematics at Harvard College. After graduating summa cum laude, he began a Ph.D. program in math, specializing in the rarefied subject of algebraic topology. Midway through the doctoral program, he decided that mathematics would be too "lonely" a pursuit and enrolled in Harvard Law School. He finished magna cum laude in 1966, and a year later was selected...
With that, Castro launched into venomous language to describe the No. 1 enemy of his revolution and, in his view, of mankind: the Reagan Administration and U.S. "imperialism." The U.S. leadership, said Castro, is composed of "new Nazi-fascist barbarians, blackmailers by nature, cowardly, opportunistic and calculating like their Hitlerian predecessors." The Reagan Administration, he charged, is pushing the world toward nuclear holocaust. Citing in particular the deployment of new U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, Castro declared that President Reagan's "warlike hysteria" would produce a "necessary and just response" from Cuba's main ally...
Killing reached its apotheosis in Nazi Germany, and so did the language used to avoid saying so. Prisoners sent to concentration camps in the east carried identity papers marked "Ruckkehr unerwunscht," meaning "return unwanted," meaning death. Whole carloads of such prisoners were assigned to "Sonderbehandlung," meaning "special treatment," also meaning death. The totality of persecutions and killings was called "die Endloöung," meaning "the final solution," that too meaning death...