Europe.view Let us have no liesJun 11th 2009 From Economist.com Using the law to salve a guilty national conscienceYOU automatically lose an argument if you call the other person a Nazi, states an adage coined by Mike Godwin, a writer about the internet, in 1990. With that in mind, it is wise to proceed with …
Tag Archive: Holocaust
Apr 09
Eichmann book review
Adolf Eichmann ManhuntApr 2nd 2009From The Economist print edition Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious NaziBy Neal Bascomb Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 400 pages; $26. To be published in Britain by Quercus in SeptemberBRINGING old Nazis to justice was not a priority in the …
May 22
Irena Sendler Obituary
Irena Sendler May 22nd 2008From The Economist print edition Irena Sendler, saviour of children in the Warsaw ghetto, died on May 12th, aged 98 East News Poland POLAND suffered more than any other European country during the second world war. And there was an extra twist: the history of that suffering was then systematically distorted …
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