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Forgotten deaths in la France profonde.(History)
FOR ANYONE WITH HALF an eye to see, Paris is not only the "City of Light", but just as surely a city of death, with much of this death inflicted by the French on their own. At the time of the Revolution so much blood soaked into the ground from the guillotine during the Terror, in what is today the Place de la Concorde, that grave fears were held for what this could mean for the city's health. Paris, too, is the city which saw the ruthless ending of the Commune with the summary execution of some 20,000 communards.
Yet for all this, it is the reminders of the deaths in more recent times that seize the imagination of thoughtful visitors. For while Nazidom died in ...
- Another hero lost; Gunter Grass.(A novelist in the Waffen-SS)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 19, 2006 700+ words
...aircraft batteries, but a member of the Waffen-SS. Mr Grass said in an interview that...of 17, to join a tank division of the Waffen-SS. Mr Grass says he did not fire a shot...military cemetery in Bitburg, where some Waffen-SS members were buried. Mr Grass was an...
- THE GHOST BATTALION: SPANIARDS IN THE WAFFEN-SS, 1944-1945.
- Magazine article from: The Historian BOWEN, WAYNE H. January 1, 2001 700+ words
...several hundred Spaniards enlisted in the Waffen-SS (militarized units of the SS) and the...the historiography of Spaniards in the Waffen-SS is much more limited. Two short books...than those from Spain. Works about the Waffen-SS by Mark Gingerich, Bernd Wegner, Robert...
- Mutiny in the Balkans: Croat Volksdeutsche, the Waffen-SS and motherhood *.
- Magazine article from: East European Quarterly Wittmann, Anna M. September 22, 2002 700+ words
...s response to Kumm's history of a Waffen-SS division composed largely of ethnic Germans...George Stein's classic study of the Waffen-SS summarises the prevailing view: Perhaps the most shocking evidence against the Waffen SS was presented [in the Nuremberg trials...
- German author served in Waffen-SS.(Guenter Grass)(Brief article)
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books August 14, 2006 700+ words
...COMMUNICATIONS LTD German author Guenter Grass, a previous winner of the Nobel Prize, has revealed that he was a member of the Waffen-SS. According to the BBC, the author told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that he was recruited into an SS tank...
- I'M HEAD OF WAFFEN SS UK AND I WILL BLOW UP ALL NON BRITS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) July 16, 2009 700+ words
...to bomb migrants faces years in jail. Neil Lewington, 43, turned his bedroom into an terror assembly line and planned a "Waffen SS UK". In a handwritten "member's handbook" he boasted: "We will use incendiary and explosive devices until all non...
- I'M HEAD OF UK'S WAFFEN SS AND I WILL BLOW UP ALL NON BRITS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) July 16, 2009 700+ words
...turned his bedroom into a terror assembly line for homemade explosives under the noses of his elderly parents. He planned a "Waffen SS UK" to drive out black, Asian and other immigrants from the UK. In a handwritten "member's handbook" the white supremacist...
- Pentagon unaware that Shali's father served in SS unit - Aspin. (father of...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily September 15, 1993 700+ words
...military officer, frequent Pentagon background checks did not uncover his father's World War II service in a Nazi unit, the Waffen SS, the secretary of defense said yesterday. Les Aspin, responding to a reporter's question, said Shalikashvili did not...
- Documents appear to link JSC nominee's father to Nazi forces. (Joint Chiefs of...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily August 27, 1993 700+ words
Gen. John Shalikashvili, President Clinton's choice to replace Gen. Colin Powell as the nation's top military officer, received his early education in Nazi Germany during Hitler's Third Reich--a regime his father joined in 1941 and ultimately served as a major in the Warren SS, according to
Source: HighBeam Research, Forgotten deaths in la France profonde.(History)