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When Soviet troops rolled into Auschwitz in January 1945 and liberated the camp's remaining prisoners, they found no trace of the elusive doctor. By the following year, he is said to have settled in Freiburg. Indeed, he seemed to have already developed Houdini-esque gifts as an escape artist. Last January, former U.S. Army Private Walter Kempthorne told the Wiesenthal Center that in July 1945, he ran across a red-faced, sweating German in the custody of U.S. Army soldiers at a camp near the German town of Trier. Why, Kempthorne asked, was the man being put through such...
...following events trace the end of the clubs' Harvard affiliation...
...because the veterans' groups are legally entitled to meet. In protest, however, the town band has refused to play for the gathering. For their part, leaders of the two SS "old comrades' associations" insisted last week that they were getting together only for organizational reasons, including continued efforts to trace some 150,000 SS troopers missing since World War II. SS veterans' associations have been finding it more and more difficult to meet of late. Last year the 1st Armored Corps Association had to call off a reunion in Bad Harzburg when demonstrations erupted and a local court banned...
...under Michelangelo's frescoes in the rarely seen Pauline Chapel, the Pope met briefly with Today Hosts Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel, both of whom asked the Pontiff to bless their children. Also present was Pauley's usually camera-shy husband, Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who afterward remarked, with a trace of awe in his voice, "He was not like somebody working the crowd at all. He really greeted each one of us individually...
...immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...