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See if you can guess the source of this quote. "It is better for all the world . . . [if] society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind . . . Three generations of imbeciles is enough." If you think that this quote came from a Nazi document, you're wrong. It's from Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1927 majority opinion in BUCK V. BELL that upheld a Virginia law mandating the sterilization of the "feebleminded." Twenty years later, Holmes's words were thrown back in our face by Nazi defendants in the Nuremberg trials. You see, while the...

BERLIN (AP) Leni Riefenstahl, best known for her Nazi-era propaganda films, has died at age 101, a German magazine reports, quoting a long-time friend.

<p>FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) The government began tearing down six more bunkers from Hitler's infamous West Wall Thursday against the wishes of some German historians and war veterans who want the remaining concrete and steel fortifications saved as historic memorials.</p> <p>The leader of the Third Reich built 20,000 bunkers, trenches and tank dugouts along a 940-mile line, also known as the Siegfried Line, stretching along the German border from near Basel, Switzerland to Kleve in northern Germany.</p>

A scholar from the National Institutes of Health says America would benefit from aborting the blind and disabled.

Adolf Hitler predicted, on a number of occasions, that his regime, the Third Reich, would endure for a thousand years. It lasted for just twelve, from 1933, when he was elected Reichschancellor, to 1945, when he poisoned his bride and blew his brains out -- or was it the other way around? During those twelve years, Adolf and his Third Reich did plenty of damage. They executed ten or twelve million folks at home. They set off a worldwide war that murdered about sixty million more. They inspired quantum advances in the technology of killing appalling numbers of human...