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...week to the defendants, seven men and two women, all age 60 or older. One got a life sentence; another was acquitted; the rest received jail terms ranging from three to twelve years. Thus ended the longest (5½ years), and probably the last, major West German trial for Nazi war crimes against concentration camp inmates. The nine were all guards at the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland between 1941 and 1944. They had been charged with shooting, gassing, drowning or fatally beating some of the 250,000 Polish Jews, gypsies, Russian P.O.W.s and others who died there...
...Russell Ryan, then a U.S. Air Force mechanic, in Europe, married him in Canada in 1958 and later moved with him to the U.S., where she became a citizen and a resident of Queens, N.Y. She was discovered in Canada in 1964 by Simon Wiesenthal, a tireless tracker of Nazi fugitives. In 1971 she was stripped of U.S. citizenship on grounds of concealing her war crimes. In 1973 she was deported...
...most prestigious grandes écoles and currently the most influential. It was created by De Gaulle after World War II specifically to unite civil servants by providing them with a rigorous, state-supervised education, and to build up the bureaucratic self-esteem that was tarnished during the Nazi years. It accepts only 150 students annually. Almost invariably, graduates of E.N.A. are assured of getting top jobs in the civil service. Indeed, so well did De Gaulle's innovation flourish that technocrats like Giscard, Rocard and onetime French Premier Jacques Chirac were finally able to dominate the country...
Rabbi Rubin Dobin, 65, from Miami, the national chairman of the American Anti-Nazi Association, who lost 85 relatives in the Holocaust, brought two stones. "One is for the 6 million, and one is for a memorial to the 5 million non-Jews who were killed," he said. "The Holocaust was a Jewish sorrow, but Jewish sorrow is enveloped in world sorrow...
...release in 1978. Kissinger told TIME that "the trigger for his arrest was not anti-Semitism," although he also believes that the Argentine publisher was treated more brutally because he is Jewish. "There is no doubt that there are many anti-Semitic trends in Argentina, but not in the Nazi sense," he says. Kissinger agrees with the Reagan Administration that the distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian governments is a valid one, adding, "but that doesn't mean we shouldn't oppose violation of human rights in either place...