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...French police, not having made a single important arrest in connection with 120 incidents since 1975, were also busy dodging charges that they were soft on rightist terrorism. Criticism had been building since August, when Italian authorities disclosed that a French police officer with well-known neo-Nazi connections had visited Italian ultrarightists in July, shortly before the Bologna blast. José Deltorn, a police union official, claimed last week that 30 members of the force were known neo-Nazis. He also charged that Interior Minister Christian Bonnet has had a list of the suspect policemen on his desk...
...most reckonings. The European Nationalist Union (F.N.E.) is the largest such group, with an estimated membership of only 200. Although uninterested in sophisticated political theory, neofascist street soldiers have found ideological shelter in the work of various writers, known collectively as the New Right, who support such Nazi notions as elitist education and genetic engineering. Warns Ory: "Every society produces marginal people ready to put on a uniform to mythify their delinquency. What is dangerous is a group of intellectuals who can gild the uniform and make it seem respectable...
After the murals were unveiled in 1937, 2 years before the Nazi invasion of Poland, many considered their symbolism an insult to the leader of a foreign nation. The museum maintained that the paintings were simply representations of the legends...
...generally accepted but unwritten rule in scholarly circles that "scientific" films and other visual materials covering such topics as experiments counducted on human subjects in Nazi Germany are not worthy of scientific attention and go too far beyond the realm of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings. Also, classroom presentation of explicit photographic materials on violence against women (an children) and other such pathological activities is considered and act of gross impropriety and is verboten in academic and other institutions of reasonable moral standards...
...argument that these anthropologists have the right (or academic freedom) to show such films, I say that one would be well within his right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...