Word: treblinka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evacuations to Treblinka. The ghetto could have been wiped out with weapons, as was finally done after the rebellion. After I'd left. But at the start... Mr. Lanzmann, this is getting us nowhere. We're reaching no new conclusions...
...Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims at the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps. Stangl had been living under his own name, and was working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav Franz Wagner, accused of involvement in the killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following...
...however, he became the highest-ranking Nazi officer to be tried in a West German court; he was sentenced to 15 years for being "continuously engaged and deeply entangled in guilt," notably for supplying the boxcars that shipped 300,000 Polish Jews to the gas ovens at Treblinka...
...Though the Jewish writer Jean-François Steiner, author of the 1967 book Treblinka, shares this view, many Jews sharply dispute...
...memorial, a museum commemorating the millions of Jews and others who died at Auschwitz and Dachau and Treblinka, will be housed in two large, red brick turn-of-the-century buildings. The catastrophic drama of genocide will thus be installed in the middle of the Washington tourist round, along with the Capitol and the cherry blossoms. The museum will detain tourists as the Ancient Mariner seized the wedding guests to make them listen to an uglier tale than they might want to hear...