Posts tagged ‘Gestapo Torture’

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:57:26 GMT

Jan Karski's 'Story of a Secret State' - Czech Position (blog)


Czech Position (blog)

Jan Karski's 'Story of a Secret State'
Czech Position (blog)
He writes about the difficulty of operating in a place you are widely known: “It is almost as difficult to be tight-lipped to a smiling friend as it is to remain silent under Gestapo torture,” he writes upon his return to Warsaw.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 19:39:24 GMT

Fox Drums Up Misplaced Outrage Over Possible Presidential Apology To Pakistan - Media Matters for America


Fox Drums Up Misplaced Outrage Over Possible Presidential Apology To Pakistan
Media Matters for America
From The Economist: American military intelligence officers recruited and later shielded from prosecution Mr Klaus Barbie, now awaiting trial in France for war crimes while head of the Gestapo in occupied Lyons. Evidence of their involvement has ...

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Wed, 09 May 2012 01:59:48 GMT

Must Read Fiction: ?Prague Fatale,? ?Derby Day? and More - Daily Beast


Daily Beast

Must Read Fiction: ?Prague Fatale,? ?Derby Day? and More
Daily Beast
The wisecracks work best when they insult: A Gestapo officer is in his way, “blocking the sun, as was their habit”; it's not the Jews who should wear yellow stars but Hitler, “and sewn just over his heart – assuming he had one – an aiming spot for a ...

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Tue, 08 May 2012 00:15:10 GMT

Jerri Zbiral: finding a new path to Lidice - Radio Prague


Radio Prague

Jerri Zbiral: finding a new path to Lidice
Radio Prague
When she heard what had happened in Lidice, she wrote to the Gestapo in Kladno and said, 'My brother has been killed and I'd like to take Eva,' and they ended up giving my sister to Ella. So she was the only known quantity of all the children, ...

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Fri, 11 May 2012 07:56:52 GMT

Former CIA analyst: US media prevents justice in Mideast - Arab American News


Former CIA analyst: US media prevents justice in Mideast
Arab American News
A: Well, that's one half of the agency, the other is an accident of history, the covert action court, Kennedy was against it and now it's got all the funding in the world, for torture, black hole prisons, and Obama to my great regret and surprise ...

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Mon, 14 May 2012 17:55:56 GMT

The Spirit of Geert Wilders - AINA (press release)


The Spirit of Geert Wilders
AINA (press release)
"The most tolerant country in Europe" is an increasingly incoherent polity where gays are bashed, uncovered women get jeered in the street, and you can't do The Diary of Anne Frank as your school play lest the Gestapo walk-ons are greeted by audience ...

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:03:48 GMT

How Liberty Was Lost - Foreign Policy Journal


How Liberty Was Lost
Foreign Policy Journal
Even free women did not have equal rights. Today no Western country would openly tolerate the ownership of humans or the transfer of a woman's property upon her marriage to her husband. It is true that Western governments have ownership rights in the ...

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:52:34 GMT

The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history - Houston Chronicle


The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history
Houston Chronicle
Photo: Matt Sayles / AP In this Tuesday April 17,2012 photo a woman walks past an empty lot on Vermont Ave. between 85th St. and Manchester Ave. in South Central Los Angeles. Several large stores once occupied the lot that was looted and set afire ...

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:25:53 GMT

Holocausts: Theirs and the Many Ours - MWC News


MWC News

Holocausts: Theirs and the Many Ours
MWC News
He stated that six million Jewish men and women and eight hundred thousand Jewish babies whose blood “ran like gutters of a slaughter house” in cities of Romania, Poland and Ukrainia. Between 1919 and 1927 the figure of 6 million Jewish victims was ...

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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:53:13 GMT

20 years after the riots, LA residents say race relations feel better, the ... - Newser


20 years after the riots, LA residents say race relations feel better, the ...
Newser
(Associated Press) In this Tuesday April 17,2012 photo a woman walks past an empty lot on Vermont Ave. between 85th St. and Manchester Ave. in South Central Los Angeles. Several large stores once occupied the lot that was.

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Sat, 12 May 2012 13:57:26 GMT

Jan Karski's 'Story of a Secret State' - Czech Position (blog)


Czech Position (blog)

Jan Karski's 'Story of a Secret State'
Czech Position (blog)
... silent under Gestapo torture,” he writes upon his return to Warsaw. He also calls attention to the largely unheralded liaison women who served as messengers between Underground operatives and who were constantly exposed to arrest and execution.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 19:39:24 GMT

Fox Drums Up Misplaced Outrage Over Possible Presidential Apology To Pakistan - Media Matters for America


Fox Drums Up Misplaced Outrage Over Possible Presidential Apology To Pakistan
Media Matters for America
From The Economist: American military intelligence officers recruited and later shielded from prosecution Mr Klaus Barbie, now awaiting trial in France for war crimes while head of the Gestapo in occupied Lyons. Evidence of their involvement has ...

and more »
Read more

Wed, 09 May 2012 01:59:48 GMT

Must Read Fiction: ?Prague Fatale,? ?Derby Day? and More - Daily Beast


Daily Beast

Must Read Fiction: ?Prague Fatale,? ?Derby Day? and More
Daily Beast
The wisecracks work best when they insult: A Gestapo officer is in his way, “blocking the sun, as was their habit”; it's not the Jews who should wear yellow stars but Hitler, “and sewn just over his heart – assuming he had one – an aiming spot for a ...

Read more

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:15:10 GMT

Jerri Zbiral: finding a new path to Lidice - Radio Prague


Radio Prague

Jerri Zbiral: finding a new path to Lidice
Radio Prague
When she heard what had happened in Lidice, she wrote to the Gestapo in Kladno and said, 'My brother has been killed and I'd like to take Eva,' and they ended up giving my sister to Ella. So she was the only known quantity of all the children, ...

Read more

Fri, 11 May 2012 07:56:52 GMT

Former CIA analyst: US media prevents justice in Mideast - Arab American News


Former CIA analyst: US media prevents justice in Mideast
Arab American News
A: Well, that's one half of the agency, the other is an accident of history, the covert action court, Kennedy was against it and now it's got all the funding in the world, for torture, black hole prisons, and Obama to my great regret and surprise ...

Read more

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:55:56 GMT

The Spirit of Geert Wilders - AINA (press release)


The Spirit of Geert Wilders
AINA (press release)
"The most tolerant country in Europe" is an increasingly incoherent polity where gays are bashed, uncovered women get jeered in the street, and you can't do The Diary of Anne Frank as your school play lest the Gestapo walk-ons are greeted by audience ...

and more »
Read more

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:03:48 GMT

How Liberty Was Lost - Foreign Policy Journal


How Liberty Was Lost
Foreign Policy Journal
Even free women did not have equal rights. Today no Western country would openly tolerate the ownership of humans or the transfer of a woman's property upon her marriage to her husband. It is true that Western governments have ownership rights in the ...

and more »
Read more

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:52:34 GMT

The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history - Houston Chronicle


The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history
Houston Chronicle
Photo: Matt Sayles / AP In this Tuesday April 17,2012 photo a woman walks past an empty lot on Vermont Ave. between 85th St. and Manchester Ave. in South Central Los Angeles. Several large stores once occupied the lot that was looted and set afire ...

and more »
Read more

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:25:53 GMT

Holocausts: Theirs and the Many Ours - MWC News


MWC News

Holocausts: Theirs and the Many Ours
MWC News
He stated that six million Jewish men and women and eight hundred thousand Jewish babies whose blood “ran like gutters of a slaughter house” in cities of Romania, Poland and Ukrainia. Between 1919 and 1927 the figure of 6 million Jewish victims was ...

and more »
Read more

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:53:13 GMT

20 years after the riots, LA residents say race relations feel better, the ... - Newser


20 years after the riots, LA residents say race relations feel better, the ...
Newser
(Associated Press) In this Tuesday April 17,2012 photo a woman walks past an empty lot on Vermont Ave. between 85th St. and Manchester Ave. in South Central Los Angeles. Several large stores once occupied the lot that was.

and more »
Read more

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:53:51 -0700

Jerri Zbiral: finding a new path to Lidice

Anniversaries give us the chance to think again about the meaning of events and their relevance today. Next month it will be exactly 70 years since the destruction by the Nazis of the Czech village of Lidice in June 1942. The facts and figures are well known, and even in the shadow of huge numbers later killed in the Holocaust, still remain shocking: 340 people were murdered, including 88 ... Read more

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:25:43 -0700

It's NOT over, y'hear me: Bersih 3.0 is NOT just a protest!

Pat Lu and my fellow pahlawans arrived as early as 9am on April 28th, they stayed with colleagues of WAO and Abimga at Pasar Seni. Because I only landed in Kuala Lumpur the night before and was suffering from a slight vertigo from pressure change during flight; I only got into Pasar Seni at about 2.15pm. Read more