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...first 80 names on the list of American prisoners to be transferred from the Stalag IX-B POW camp to the underground tunnels of the small concentration camp on the banks of the river Elster were all recognizably Jewish. These 80 American Jews had already been segregated into a separate barracks at the POW camp, despite the attempts by some of them to destroy their dog tags—which the U.S. Army had engraved with an “H” for Hebrew. Many lied about their “race” when interrogated. In one instance...
...attack missions during the 1991 Gulf War, Cornum's Black Hawk 214 was shot down over southern Iraq. Five of the eight people aboard died, and she ended up in enemy captivity, with both arms broken and a bullet in her shoulder. During her eight days as a pow - one of only two female U.S. prisoners in that war - she was kissed and groped by an Iraqi soldier in the back of a truck. Cornum opted to keep quiet, but when she yelped in pain from her injuries, the soldier stopped. The incident made her an instant celebrity...
...George W. Bush and the Republican Party, to seemingly backtrack on plans to air a documentary attacking Senator John Kerry? Stolen Honor, in which some Vietnam veterans assail Kerry's antiwar activism, had reportedly been scheduled to air on 62 Sinclair affiliates. Instead, on 40 affiliates Sinclair aired A POW Story on Friday, a "news special" that drew on portions of Stolen Honor but also delved into the way politics and the media influence one another. Sinclair denies any about-face, saying that the company had never made a final decision to air the entire documentary. But there was, without...
...cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for. "This week was the birth of a truly European Socialist faction," said Martin Schulz, the German leader of the Socialist group. (Berlusconi may now regret having compared Schulz to a Nazi pow camp guard last year.) "Despite pressure from national governments," he added, "all our Socialists were thinking like Europeans...
...STUNNED TO SEE THE TERM "POL-ish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World War II [including the one in what is now Poland where Sanache was imprisoned]. We need to preserve the truth about atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve Poland...