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Eugene

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1. From Reuters:
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 07:04 AM
Jul 2015
World | Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:54am EDT

German court finds 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' guilty

LUENEBURG, GERMANY | BY MICHELLE MARTIN

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The trial went to the heart of the question of whether people who were small cogs in the Nazi machinery, but did not actively participate in the killing of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, were guilty of crimes. Until recently, the answer from the German justice system was no.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/15/us-germany-nazi-trial-idUSKCN0PP0PV20150715

From Reuters: Eugene Jul 2015 #1
70 years ago bucolic_frolic Jul 2015 #2
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