Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absentia of war crimes and sentenced to death. Judge Cerdini will rule later on the claim. Barbie, now charged with "crimes against humanity," including the deportation of 44 Jewish children from a village near Lyons to Auschwitz, told the court his prosecution was "like a revival of the Nuremberg trial. I had the impression that I ran around Lyons with a rifle in my hand and chased Jews...
...convention were at a prayer breakfast and for a speech that associated the runners who had just carried the Olympic flame across America with the torch-bearing Statue of Liberty. The crowd burst into cheers of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" This transcended normal politics. It was the politics of ecstasy. A Nuremberg rally without the menace...
...office, so irksome to other Presidents, were the things he liked best and did best. He gave out medals and awards enthusiastically (and generously: the military granted more medals for % Grenada than actual troops landed there). Heroic government, on the epic scale, was his favorite movie -- the happy Nuremberg rally...
...Weizsacker also holds himself to the same moral standard to which he holds his homeland. His father, Ernst von Weizsacker, held high posts in Hitler's Foreign Service and later was tried in Nuremberg for war crimes. But the younger von Wiezsacker, a member of the German Army, consistently calls that army's defeat a "liberation" from Nazi barbarism--much to the displeasure and discomfort of his fellow citizens...
There was something schizophrenic about last week's Social Democratic Party congress in Nuremberg. On one hand the 430 delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a moderate, Johannes Rau, 55, as their candidate for Chancellor in next January's general election. On the other, they saddled him with a left-leaning party platform that called for, among other things, the total phase-out of nuclear energy, the withdrawal of NATO missiles from West Germany, the formation of "partnerships for peace" with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, and the reorganization of the West German army in order to "render it incapable of offensive...