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They were shipped to indoctrination centers in Germany, then sent for adoption to "racially valid and ideologically trustworthy" German families. More than 200,000 children were taken from their families in Poland alone. In the in famous Nazi massacre in the Czech vil lage of Lidice, the Germans first examined the community's 90 children. They saved eight for Himmler's program and gassed the rest...
...more recent short stories included here that one finds the authentic Garcia Marquez in the humor, the color and detail, the easy access to magic balanced by harder ironies. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, ostensibly written for children, the inhabitants of a fishing vil lage discover a magnificent corpse on the beach, and in marveling at its splendor come to recognize the meanness of their own lives. In another story, a flea-bitten old angel makes a mysterious appearance...
...visitors lingered by the graves of their fallen comrades, and in the vil lage squares, local musicians played tunes of glory. Most of the returning warriors, however, sought to revive their memories on the Normandy beaches - Omaha, Juno and Utah. Some brought their families, and under a bright, sunny sky, they tried to describe the all-or-nothing assault upon Hitler's Festung Europa. For many it was the second longest...
That Charlotte tried to escape in her writing is well documented in this painstaking biography. British Scholar Winifred Gerin has already written biographies of Anne Brontë and ne'er-do-well brother Branwell. A decade ago, she moved to the Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result...
...their own tract of land (Blackistan? Negronia?) to what a writer in Manhattan's Vil lage Voice calls "the copulative approach," aimed at complete elimination of racial differences through intermarriage (though if Brazil and the Philippines are any measure, subtle new discriminations would arise based on how much cafe one inherited and how much laif). Harlem Black Nationalist James Lawson even demands "reparations" amounting to $7,000 for every black person in America...