Word: ss
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...chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made of this material." One journalist wrote, "Today we sell Nazi black, tomorrow it can be SS green, and the day after Hitler brown...Good Lord, what have we come to?" At last word, the store's management hinted it would stop using the name...
...allowed the Nazi Party to compete in postwar elections in Germany and then permitted the SS to handle internal security," Kris Janowski, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees told the New York Times. In their areas of dominance, all three sides have bulldozed their own voters to toe the line and other voters to stay away. Kujundzic and other Bosnian Serb leaders remain determined to gain independence for the territory they seized at the beginning of the war. The two most important preconditions for free and fair elections laid out in the peace agreement--freedom of movement...
ROME: A former Nazi officer who confessed to killing two people and taking part in the World War II massacre of 335 civilians near Rome was arrested again just hours after being acquitted by an Italian court on Thursday. Erich Priebke, a former SS captain, is now back in jail waiting for extradition to Germany. After the Italian court pronounced sentence on Priebke, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired and that he could not be found guilty of some charges because he was following orders at the time, a horde of outraged protestors burst into the court...
EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era judgments formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ." He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered...
ROME: Hours before he was due to testify in a trial of a former Nazi officer, a key prosecution witness broke his pelvis Friday trying to flee. The witness, former SS Major Carl Hass, had volunteered to testify against former SS Major Erich Priebke, who is accused of executing 335 civilians in caves near Rome in 1944. Hass, 84, who fell while trying to climb over the terrace outside his second-story hotel room in Rome, is in stable condition and has agreed to testify from his hospital bed on Wednesday. The desperate escape attempt raised questions about...