Word: kristallnacht
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...contrast, I have been brought into contact with any number of historians, in America and abroad, who have twisted the facts of history to suit their own particular political or social views or prejudices. Mainstream German history textbooks today routinely ignore or treat merely as footnotes such events as Kristallnacht, the Holocaust and German guilt, while the more extreme deny their existence entirely. At various points in the past century, entirely reputable historians came down on all sides of the Vietnam War, the Armenian massacres by Turks, the humanity of Soviet communism and, today, American policies across the Middle East...
...real first-class jerk; thought he knew everything,” says stoic old Uncle Dick. My paternal grandfather helped lead a petition in 1938 to get Harvard to take on a German-Jewish university student and university professor after Kristallnacht, and was told by the President that Harvard “didn’t do things like that...
...addition to yesterday’s lecture, Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Eric Rentschler will host a special screening commemorating Kristallnacht in his course, "Fantasy Production in the Third Reich," at the Carpenter Center Auditorium at 4 p.m. today...
Jayme J. Herschkopf ’06, a student programmer at Hillel who is also a Crimson editor, said that, to her knowledge, Kristallnacht had not been commemorated previously on campus, apart from over e-mail lists...
...events of Kristallnacht, Simon said, have a relevance to current human-rights crises, like those underway in Darfur...