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...Even the cowed population of Warsaw openly shows its hatred. Obscene gestures are made at passing armored columns. The Poles have taken the acronym of the ruling military council WRON, and added an A to produce WRONA, crow in Polish. "Crow" was what Poles called the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, after the stylized eagle on the Gestapo emblem. Silhouettes of crows are popping up around Warsaw, and swastikas are being drawn on the frosty windows of the capital's overcrowded buses...
Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's architect and builder of monuments to the Third Reich who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, used slave labor to keep the German war machine running. The only Nazi leader to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, he served 20 years before his release...
...into energy; on Nov. 22; in Oxford, England. Born in Germany, Krebs was a researcher in Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea, the product of metabolized protein, is formed in the liver. Four years later, after fleeing to England from Nazi Germany, he discovered the citric acid cycle-later named the Krebs cycle-in which organisms convert carbon compounds into carbon dioxide. In the late 1950s, he discovered the glyoxylate cycle, in which fats are used as carbon sources for cell growth. Krebs, a naturalized British citizen, was knighted...
...most Americans the idea of sterilization abuse conjures up images of Nazi Germany and Hitler's push for a pure race. Few Americans would believe that sterilization abuse continues in their public hospitals, as well as on Native American reservations. Fewer still would realize that hysterectomy (removal of the uterus and tubal ligation) is fast becoming the most frequently performed operation on this nation's women...
...title of the film and the weekend refers to the pink triangles homosexuals interred in Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear on their uniforms. The pink triangle has since been adopted as a positive symbol by the gay movement, Michael G. Colantuono '83, former secretary of the GSA said yesterday