Word: crematoria
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...Holocaust, a term that has come to invite an automatic and generalized response at the expense of the particular. Levi provides the wire, barking guards, sadistic Kapos and the ovens, which, we learn with devastating offhandedness, were manufactured by Topf of Wiesbaden, a company that went on to produce crematoria until 1975. There are also the moral zombies who planned and managed the Lagers (camps), and the scientists who acted in the name of higher learning. Of Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian physician and chief doctor of the Birkenau SS, Levi writes dryly, "Nyiszli was supposed to devote himself in particular...
Funny how those so concerned about "public health" sound a lot like those who were concerned about "racial purity"--funny, but not so funny. Storm troopers dressed in medical smocks are no less terrifying and crematoria built in the name of ending an epidemic smell just...
...famous "grandfather clock" pediment with its round operculum, through which the heating system will issue clouds of steam on cold days. This is yet another historicist joke, alluding to one of Johnson's favorites from the past-Boullée, whose vast panoramas of pyramids, masonry globes and smoking crematoria are among the singular documents of the early Industrial Revolution. That a building should have a top was, of course, anathema to Johnson's mentor, Mies van der Rohe; the glass prism required a flat roof, finished in one clean cut. But since all the great pre-Modernist Manhattan buildings have...
European Jewry suffered the holocaust in intensified aggravation because of the chutzpah of just such self-appointed Ge-meinde Führers. In fact, such self-anointed Jewish leaders "negotiated" countless numbers of (mis)represented Jews right into the crematoria...
...example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than 1,000,000 Jewish children who perished during the holocaust-it was a way station to Auschwitz's crematoria...