Word: reich
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...IRVING REICH New Hope...
...second juridical problem turns on the question of whether East Germany is a successor state to the Nazi Reich. The treaty accepts the presence of two separate nations on German soil, implying that there are now two such successor states. That in turn provides a legal base for claims against East Germany for war damage and confiscation by the Nazis as well as by the Communists...
...related claims (the equivalent of $12.6 billion at the current rate of exchange for the mark, which has fluctuated between 23? and 31? since the payments began). Those payments included 3.45 billion marks to Israel. East Germany argues that it is not a successor state to the Reich but a new one, and disclaims any responsibility for damage done by the Nazis. That argument is undermined by the fact that the regime paid 64.4 billion marks in war reparations to the Soviet Union, and 100 million marks to Yugoslavs used as forced labor by the Nazis...
Heinrich Müller, 72, was chief of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and Adolf Eichmann's immediate superior. For years it was assumed that Müller was killed when the Red Army encircled Berlin. But in 1963 the West Berlin district attorney's office opened his supposed grave and found the bones of three different men, none of them Müller. In recent years, Müller has been reported in Brazil and Argentina, where, some investigators believe, he acts as "enforcer" among escaped SS criminals...
When one surveys the Harvard Faculty in an effort to find it man who is sensitive, in touch, committed, the name George Wald usually crops up. But who is George Wald when compared to Charles Reich, the man who made Consciousness III a household word. Reisk's critics, who originally charged that his book was just a fairytale, now point to the recent presidential election as hard evidence that America has not yet greened. Of course not. But after all, Reisk never told that Consciousness it would die easily...