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A Persistent Emotional Issue - The story of escaped Nazis after the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 has long gripped novelists and Hollywood screenwriters and provided the grist for such box office hits as The Boys From Brazil and The ODESSA File....

Ambassade de la Fédération de Russie publié le 12/12/2006 MESSAGE de la part de Monsieur Anatoly GOUREVITCH, membre du réseau de «l’Orchestre rouge», le dernier qui reste en vie, adressé aux participants aux événements commémoratifs consacrés à l’anniversaire...

Même s’il ne peut décemment pas prétendre être compté parmi les plus grands cinéastes hollywoodiens, Mervyn LeRoy ne mérite néanmoins pas le dédain avec lequel on le toise souvent dans un nombre incalculable de critiques et d’ouvrages français. Au contraire,...

published 06/06/2006 at 11:04 by Robert Wolfe During an IWG press conference at the National Archives on June 6, 2006, the following erroneous conclusion was offered in a press handout, and its media dissemination amplified by a televised sound bite of...

publiziert 30/05/2006 at 19:09 by Wolfgang U. Eckart 100 Jahre Immunologie in Heidelberg – Stolze Anfänge, von den Nationalsozialisten 1933 zerschlagen Als am 25. September 1906 im Beisein des Großherzogs von Baden die feierliche Einweihung des auf eine...

Ginette Leclerc voit le jour le 9 février 1912 dans le quartier populaire de la butte Montmartre dominée par la basilique du Sacré-Cœur. Son père est un modeste artisan horloger. Délurée et avide d’indépendance elle se marie à dix-sept ans. Elle divorce...

published 15/03/2006 at 10:44 by Donald Greyfield Birth : Jun. 28, 1914 - Death : Jan. 28, 1987 Religious Leader. He came to America in 1950 and became a naturalized citizen in 1957. However, he allegedly hid a pro-Nazi past on his application and was...

Simon Wiesenthal Center published 28/12/2005 SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE 64, avenue Marceau - 75008 Paris Tel. +33 14237637 - Fax: +33 147208401 http://www.wiesenthal-europe.com Wiesenthal Centre to Norwegian Prime Minister: "Quisling Returns to Oslo?" Paris,...

Henri Krasucki consacra son intelligence et son énergie au combat pour la dignité et l’avenir de l’homme. Actif dans la Résistance dès l’âge de 15 ans, déporté, secrétaire d’union locale dès son retour, dirigeant confédéral à 31 ans, secrétaire général...

Der Fall August Becker: Vom Gasflaschenlieferant zum Mörder in den Tötungsanstalten der Nazis. Als einem von vielen wurde Dr. August Becker der Prozess gemacht. Bild: Alfred Drossel Töten in einer Minute. Das konnte der Chemiker Dr. phil. August Becker....

Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals which, since at least 2005, includes a list of "most wanted" criminals. The 2013 list...

Part I In response to the March 11 Madrid train bombings, Lyndon LaRouche stated that widely trumpeted assertions that the Basque separatist ETA or "Islamic terrorists" were responsible for the attack, were utterly groundless, and noted that instead,...

published 01/01/2004 at 10:32 John Tiltman joined the British Army in 1914, saw service at the front during the Great War, and was wounded in France. In the period from 1921-29, he served with the Indian Army as a cryptanalyst. After a decade as a War...

published 31/08/2003 According to the American Kennel Club (AKC): "Frank Jay Gould was the son of the financier, Jay Gould. He was born in 1877 and died in France in 1956. Mr. Gould was a playboy (his father died in 1892 and left about 77 million to the...

Birth: 1885 - Death: Mar. 30, 1944. Navy admiral. Koga served as a naval attaché in Paris before being given command of the Yokosuka Naval Station. He was appointed Vice Chief of the Naval Staff Board in December 1937. After the attack on Pearl Harbor,...

published 01/01/2002 at 16:56 by Robert Horvitz "He can't even throw a baseball!" was the way my cousin Harvey greeted me soon after my birth on May 8, 1947. Looking forward to a fellow athlete, Harvey, age three, found me ill prepared for sports. I suspect...

(Alias Klaus Altmann, Klaus Becker, Heinz Becker, Klaus Behrens, Heinz Behrens, Klaus Spier, Ernst Holzer). Robert Wolfe, IWG Historian - September 19, 2001. This file was assembled chiefly from copies of previous files of several U.S. Federal Agencies,...

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. - Titus Maccius Plautus, Italian playwright (c250-184 BC) In 1943, a phenomenon began that mercifully did not last long, but was so singularly the epitome of evil that the English language did...

The Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 initiated a search for information in classified American government records about the Holocaust and other war crimes committed by Nazi Germany or its allies. A second target of this law was information about...

Each year since 2001, Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center produces an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals which, since at least 2005, includes a list of "most wanted" criminals. As of 2012,...

published 01/01/2001 at 15:36 by Leland H. Hartwell I don't remember much about my early childhood. I am told that before I began school, my older cousin would return from her school and teach me what she had learned. By the time I was 10 or so, I was...

published 01/01/2001 at 10:40 Joseph Desch graduated from the University of Dayton in Ohio in 1929 with a degree in electrical engineering. While working, first for General Motors, then for National Cash Register Company (NCR), he acquired a reputation...

Subject : CIA Activities in Chile Salvador Allende To respond to Section 311 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (referred to hereafter as the Hinchey Amendment), the Intelligence Community (IC), led by the National Intelligence...

Summary of Sources/Methodology To respond to Section 311 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (referred to hereafter as the Hinchey Amendment), the Intelligence Community (IC), led by the National Intelligence Council, reviewed relevant...

Gray-bearded and slightly rumpled, Allan Ryan peers over the top of his reading glasses. He has just been thrown the question of whether personal passion is what drives his interest in the prosecution of war criminals and human rights offenders. Allan...

published 01/07/2000 at 16:19 AM by Albert Tucker Danilova Collection Comes to the Library The Library of Congress recently added to its significant dance holdings with the acquisition of the collection of Alexandra Danilova, the Ballet Russe de Monte...

publié le 18/06/1998 à 16h33 Grand officier de la Légion d’honneur, Grand-Croix de l’ordre national du Mérite, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Commandeur des Palmes académiques, Commandeur du Mérite agricole, Commandeur de l’ordre du Mérite de la...

published 01/01/1998 at My father, Jabir Murat Ejupi, was born in Albania in 1892 and was the oldest of four children. His mother died when he was 13 years old. He and his family were shepherds and he subsequently ran away from home to sell candy in the...

Maurice Buckmaster was born in 1910. He was educated at Eton until his father was declared bankrupt. After leaving school he moved to France where he worked as a reporter for Le Martin. Later he was a banker before becoming a senior manager with the Ford...

Personal recollections of the capture and show trial of an intelligence chief. The list of the 22 once exalted Nazis on trial at Nuremberg was led by the notorious names Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, and Keitel, in that order. The man who came fifth, after...