Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wartime command of the German forces combatting resistance movements in Eastern Europe. When the Warsaw underground rose in revolt in 1944, Bach-Zelewsky's forces slaughtered over 100,000 Poles and leveled 90% of the city. He escaped punishment by becoming a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg trials and testifying against his former SS comrades. In 1962, however, he was convicted of the prewar political murder of three Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...That is a maxim followed by all who have broken the law as a matter of conscience, from Thoreau and Gandhi to Martin Luther King and the brothers Berrigan. The principle that a man's conscience takes precedence over the dictates of his government was reinforced at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, which rejected the claims of Hitler's lieutenants that they were only following orders...
...before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust." For each man unilaterally to veto the law would create anarchy-a kind of immorality of its own. The precedent of Nuremberg, it might be added, applied only to the high officials of the Nazi government, those who had substantial freedom. The ordinary officer or soldier was not held responsible because he did not have the right to question Hitler's orders...
...sight of the MIG, Bezak hedgehopped across the countryside at an altitude of 400 ft. About 20 minutes later, he crossed the border safely near Nuremberg. On the ground, Bezak told reporters that he hoped to find work as a commercial pilot. Meantime, a West German magazine bought the first-person story of his escape for $2,100, giving his family a modest stake with which to begin their new life in the West...
...Through his chicken-lickin' Wienerwald restaurants, which have spread across Europe and into the U.S., he works to satisfy a hungry middle class. The chain grossed $115 million last year and should do at least 10% better this year. Last month Jahn opened new outposts in Vienna and Nuremberg; he plans others in Scandinavia, Britain and South Africa. "I wouldn't be surprised," he says, "if one day there is a Wienerwald in Nigeria or Kenya...