Word: nuremberg
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Among all the rumors, inevitably, there were some that insisted that the Angel of Death had all along been dead. In 1948 Telford Taylor, who had served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, announced that "Dr. Mengele is dead as of October 1946." In 1970, according to another story, Mengele was buried in Asuncion under the name Flores. Three years later, Brazilian newspapers reported that the doctor had been killed by Israeli agents in a hideout along the Brazil-Paraguay border. "This is the fourth reported incidence of Mengele's death," was the verdict last...
...well-to-do family, Mengele studied medicine in Frankfurt, specializing in genetics. During the war, he was sent to do research at Auschwitz. His crimes there were prominently mentioned at the 1945-46 International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and, more recently, at a hearing in Jerusalem when his victims gave awful witness to his experiments, particularly on twins. They included trying to turn children's eyes blue by injecting dye, exchanging blood between twins and exposing victims to severe radiation...
...keep a promise that he would make the military account for the crimes, handed the case to the civil courts. It was a decision criticized by the military, including Alfonsin's own first Chief of Staff, retired General Jorge Arguindegui, who declared that the trial would be "a Nuremberg in reverse" because the "victors" in the war against subversion would be judged by the "vanquished...
...dictatorial emergency decree system. Schmitt warned against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...docudramas, of course, have often drawn fire for their uneasy melding of fact and fiction. But rarely has one come along that so clearly demonstrates the potential abuses of the form. The Atlanta Child Murders, written and co- produced by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, King), unearths no significant new evidence; it merely sifts through the record to reconstruct the defense's case. The film's kangaroo court then convicts the Atlanta police of incompetence, the city's black leadership of insensitivity and the criminal- justice system of railroading a suspect on the flimsiest evidence...