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...would add that the narrowly circumscribed notion of responsibility employed by the commission and apparently subscribed to by Mr. Mak is not only an insult to commonsense, but to international legal principles as well. He might be reminded that German financiers and industrialists, whose contributions to the Nazi war machine were far less direct than the Israelis' contributory role in the Beirut massacres, were indicted and tried in the Nuremberg Trials. Moreover, Article 3(e) of the U.N. Convention on Genocide regards complicity in genocide to be a punishable act; there is little question that Israel's acts rise...
...question of nonviolence, the film presented only a to brief lines on Gandhi's view of nonviolence as a response to Hitler's Germany. In real life, Gandhi wrote to the Viceroy of India as Britain fell back before Nazi might: "This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man..." He also addressed a letter to the British people as a whole, counseling them to "Let them [the Nazis] take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these...
...place. Organizers for West Germany's radical minority party, the Greens (named after its environmentalist beginnings), scurried to ready the city's Meistersingerhalle for a bizarre three-day "war-crimes tribunal." Among those who would testify before an audience of Greens supporters and sympathizers were survivors of Nazi concentration camps and Hiroshima, antiwar activists and military experts from West Germany, the U.S. and other countries...
...presidential DC-8 jet to Cayenne to fly him back to France. West Germany had also sought Barbie's extradition, but the Bonn government decided to let the French have him. Cynics were quick to point out that the Mitterrand government's dogged effort to bring the Nazi to trial could only win votes for the Socialists in the French municipal elections set for next month...
Barbie's arrest was particularly gratifying to Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, a French lawyer and his German-born wife who have specialized in tracking down Nazi criminals. When a Munich court tried to close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result...