Word: waldheim
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...thesis is that many countries remember the Holocaust in different ways, and from these different perceptions come different distortions of what the Holocaust actually was. A veteran reporter and editor for the New York Times, Miller pursues her thesis over a lot of familiar terrain -- the Barbie trial, the Waldheim election -- but when she ventures off the beaten track, which she does fairly often, she discovers some very interesting things. Like the fact that the Dutch government still pays a pension of about $11,000 a year to the widow of the country's deputy Nazi leader during the German...