Word: swastika
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...mitzvah, and the baking of unleavened bread drew sneering allusions in the Soviet press to "fanatics of the Talmud," who practice "cruelty rituals." In August Kiev's humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences ranging from three to twelve years, went a respected leader of Leningrad Jewry, Gedalia Pechersky, 60, along with five other prominent Leningrad and Moscow Jews...
...entire University in September; six weeks later the Corporation ended a dispute of two years' standing with the vote to allow Harvard's three German war dead a memorial tablet in the new church. Before the Class of '36 had graduated the Nazi swastika adorned the tablet, placed there by a visiting German official...
...that died.in the late '30s with Hitler, the swastika, and a Nazi professor shouting: "We do not recognize truth for truth's sake." Many wondered if Heidelberg, which once so heavily influenced scholars and students from Tokyo to Texas, would ever rise again...
...vegetable kingdom had many secrets from them, and when nature was recorded, it was transformed into symbols that have run through every civilization. The racing antelope became a triangle, and four such triangles formed a Maltese cross; four women, their hair streaming in the wind, turned into a swastika to symbolize the cycle of life...
Eichmann only listened, sometimes locking and interlocking his long fingers, or tilting his head in an odd, three-quarter inclination of strict attention. Occasionally, a muscle twitched in his thin neck. Once, Hausner said sarcastically that "if the swastika flag were again to be raised with shouts of 'Sieg heil I', if there were again to resound the hysterical screams of the Führer, if again the high-tension barbed wires of the extermination centers were set up-Adolf Eichmann would rise, salute and go back to his work of oppression and butchery." Eichmann drew together...