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History’s “Engineering Evil” examines Holocaust artifacts and uneasy truths
Channel Guide MagazineBy Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuideK The composer Dmitri Shostakovich used to dedicate his works to the victims of fascism and war because, as he noted, it wasn't possible in his lifetime to write an individually dedicated piece for each of the dead.... -
'The Kindly Ones,' by Jonathan Littell
The Kindly Ones
A Novel
Jonathan Littell, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Harper: 984 pp., $29.99
Literature has given us many unsympathetic protagonists yet relatively few genuine monsters: "Lolita's" Humbert Humbert, Shakespeare's...Tags: Judaism, Adolf Hitler, Massacres, Culture, Book
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PASSINGS
Maria Amelia Lopez Blogger began when she was 95 Maria Amelia Lopez, 97, a Spanish great-grandmother who described herself as the world's oldest blogger -- and became a Web sensation as she mused on events current and past -- died May 20 in her hometown...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Francisco Franco, Judaism, Spain, Civil Unrest
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Man of mud
By Nick Owchar
Why do so many monsters live in Victorian London? Was there something toxic in the Thames (Spenser probably wouldn't call it "sweet" if he could have seen it then -- or now) or in the fog that, as the Environmental Protection Agency points...Tags: Philosophy, Judaism, Prague (Czech Republic), Michael Cox, Nazi Party
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This smoking ban has some fuming
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBELMONT, CALIF. -- When the City Council of this San Francisco suburb voted to consider what could be the most stringent tobacco regulation in America, anti-smoking activists cheered. Banning smoking everywhere but single-family detached homes and their...Tags: Explosions, History, Asthma, Nazi Party, Restaurants
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'The Aryan Couple'
Times Staff WriterNearly 60 years have passed since the end of World War II, yet "The Aryan Couple" demonstrates that, although the events of the Holocaust have been exhaustively documented, they can still serve as a background for acute suspense. In a seamless blend of...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Judaism, Movies, Hungary, Judy Parfitt
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Movie review: 'Downfall'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC4 stars (out of 4) "The banality of evil" was the phrase Hannah Arendt used to describe the mindset of Germany's death camp culture during World War II, and it perfectly fits the theme and subject of the new German film "Downfall." Few movies indeed have...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Hospitals and Clinics, Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Party, Berlin (Germany)
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Bent
TIMES STAFF WRITERWednesday November 26, 1997 At the beginning of the powerful, galvanizing "Bent," a spotlight picks up a black-stockinged singer in silhouette, perched on a steel circle as it is lowered into a vast warehouse turned into a nightclub, where a...Tags: Judaism, Rachel Weisz, Philip Glass, Ian McKellen, Rupert Graves
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