Word: nazis
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...forged letter, supposedly written to Hitler by his Deputy Chancellor Rudolf Hess. Professor Eberhard Jäckel of Stuttgart University lost interest in the materials he was shown when a verse, supposedly written in Hitler's own hand in 1916, turned out to have been authored by Nazi Poet Herybert Menzel...
...crude display of force against an unofficial ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. A crowd of 1,000, including scores of foreign guests invited by the government, approached the plaque designating the place from which 300,000 Polish Jews were transported from Warsaw to Nazi death camps. After flowers were laid at the memorial, armed militiamen ordered the gathering to leave on the ground that "it is not an official occasion." They arrested Solidarity Spokesman Janusz Onyszkiewicz, who had pointedly told the crowd that "if the heroes of the ghetto lived today, we firmly believe...
...become assistant secretary of war under Roosevelt. As Allied forces began to move across Europe in 1944, Jewish leaders lobbied the War Department to bomb the railroad tracks leading to the Auschwitz concentration camp and the camp itself--a move that they believed would hamper the Nazi atrocities. It was to McCloy that Jewish leaders were told to address their petitions; McCloy answered that the bombing was not feasible...
...Alfried Krupp, the armaments magnate. Krupp had originally been convicted for employing slave labor from the concentration camps in his family's munitions factories during the war. McCloy received a barrage of criticism back home for freeing this man who for many was a living symbol of the Nazi nightmare. This is a point consistently raised by students protesting the scholarship naming. McCloy, Brinkley says, simply saw the commuting of Krupp's sentence as a symbolic, friendly gesture to German industry...
...wind of what some consider the K-School's gaffe in naming the scholarship after McCloy Rather, it was a group of several Law School alumni in Washington who read of the naming in the Harvard Gazette. These young lawyers--including one in the Justice Department who deals with Nazi war criminals, notified Dershowitz, who in turn notified members of the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association. One of the lawyers also contacted the head of the Law School's Asian American Association...