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One of the mainstay courses at the recently newsworthy Evergreen State College is an all-year course entitled “The Human Condition.” This 36-credit course has its inspiration from a book of the same name written by Hannah Arendt (1906-75). Arendt was an assimilated German Jewess student in the Weimar Republic before the rise of National Socialism ....

Mother arrested after 'leaving quadriplegic son in the woods for five days' while she visited her boyfriend Nyia Parler, 41, allegedly left her 21-year-old son in woods on Monday and traveled to Maryland where she was taken into custody early Sunday Her son was found under rain-soaked pile of leaves on Friday night and police say he would have died if passers-by hadn't spotted him He was lying on the ground 10 feet from his wheelchair and a Bible A Philadelphia mother accused of abandoning her quadriplegic son in the woods before skipping town to see her boyfriend has been...

From doctors to opera singers, teachers to truant schoolchildren, the extermination of European Jews was the work of roughly 200,000 ordinary Germans and their helpers. Years of research -- not yet complete -- reveal how sane members of a modern society committed murder for an evil regime. Walter Mattner, a police secretary from Vienna, was there in October 1941 when 2,273 Jews were shot to death in Mogilyov in Belarus. He later wrote to his wife: "My hand was shaking a bit with the first cars. By the tenth car, I was aiming calmly and shooting dependably at the many...

LEGAL BATTLE | Jewish neighbors don't believe he helped Nazis kill The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday an order to deport Osyp "Joe" Firishchak, an 88-year-old Chicago man they say lied about his role in persecuting Jewish civilians in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II in order to live in the United States. In stark contrast to the government's claims, Firishchak's Jewish next- door neighbors in Chicago said he is a "sweet, wonderful man" who is a tragic victim of an overzealous government. Firishchak emigrated to the United States in 1949 and became a citizen in 1954. He has until...

Newly released photos of SS officers sitting in canvas chairs, participating in sing-alongs and enjoying their free time at a recreation home near Auschwitz have shocked many in Germany this week.

What I expect to see in Dr. Henry Morgentaler's Toronto clinic is a small, homely sort of place like a physiotherapy office in a bad neighbourhood, where the receptionist is still typing on a Selectric and the clientele is a gaggle of depressed patients with bad backs fighting for the one chair with the Obus Forme. I expect grey-faced people with angry signs waving little troll dolls at teenaged patients outside. My expectations are all wrong. There are no demonstrators outside, thanks to an injunction and a well-chosen location. The clinic is spacious and its rooms designed in a ring,...