Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn government on its offer to foot half the cost of their purchases. The State Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...rest go free, said Ike. Like the Malmedy massacre of American GIs by Nazi storm troopers. He felt we should have caught, convicted and shot the SS killers immediately after victory; all shooting after a war should be done within six months. He did not like the Nuremberg trials either. But the trials had been Roosevelt's idea. As he talked about Roosevelt, his own admiration and exasperation came through. He picked out Roosevelt's vast geographical knowledge as the President's most extraordinary quality, and then, with irritation, spoke of the difficulty of pinning Roosevelt down...
Chavkin did intend his book to be a warning. He makes that clear at the end of his first chapter when he notes that the year the CIA started its massive MK-ULTRA program to develop mind-control techniques--1953--was the same year the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code, prohibiting experimentation on humans unless the subjects are fully aware of the nature of the experiment and freely give consent. Through the MK-ULTRA program the CIA spent more than $25 million to sponsor research often carried out on unwitting subjects...
...projects, King is far the better. Written and directed by the pious Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools), it makes a decent attempt to explain the meaning of a remarkable man's life. Audiences too young to remember the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s may find King a revelation. The struggles of Montgomery and Birmingham, of Selma and Chicago are all re-enacted with corrosive force. So, too, are the many efforts to block King's progress, whether by thugs or Southern sheriffs or J. Edgar Hoover. Against this tumultuous background...
...Soviet armies neared Auschwitz in late 1944, Mengele disappeared. His crimes were prominently mentioned at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Meanwhile, Mengele was living comfortably-under his own name -in the Bavarian town of Günzberg, where his family owned (and still owns) the town's only industry, a farm-equipment plant. In 1949 West German legal authorities were tipped about Mengele's whereabouts. He got away, using the secret escape routes established by ODESSA (an acronym in German for the Organization of Former Members...