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Hitler's Wallet

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Q: It is 1933. You are in Berlin, Germany. Somehow, you find yourself in a position where you can effortlessly steal Adolf Hitler's wallet. This theft will not effect Hitler's rise to power, the nature of World War II, or the Holocaust. There is no important identification in the wallet, but the act will cost Hitler forty Reichsmarks and completely ruin his evening. You do not need the money. The odds that you will be caught committing this crime are less than two percent. Are you ethically obligated to steal Hitler's wallet?


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The Third Wave
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The specter of fascist resurgence may not be far beneath the peaceful veneer of any nation. Even the most ostensibly free and open societies are not immune to fascism's lure -- including places like Palo Alto. What came to be known as the "Third Wave" began at Cubberly High School in Palo Alto as a game without any direct reference to Nazi Germany, says Ron Jones, who had just begun his first teaching job in the 1966-1967 academic year.

When a social studies student asked about the German public's responsibility for the rise of the Third Reich, Jones decided to try and simulate what happened in Germany by having his students "follow instructions" for a day. But one day turned into five, and what happened by the end of the school week spawned several documentaries, studies and related social experiments illuminating a dark side of human nature -- and a major weakness in public education.


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Wehrmacht back in Königsberg
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Police in the Russian city of Kaliningrad (former Königsberg) detained a man dressed as a Wehrmacht soldier in the early hours of the morning on 13 February 2011. The inebriated man, who was detained in the city's central square carrying a replica rifle, claimed he was Thomas von Lieben, Lance Corporal in Germany's wartime Grossdeutschland Panzer Division.

The man was taken to the police station, where it transpired that he was a member of a local military history club. The man had taken part in a reenactment of a WWII battle in Bagrationovsk. On their way back, members of the club had consumed fair amounts of alcohol. Apparently carried away with his role, the man had put on his uniform and began posing for photos...

http://www.klops.ru/news/Proisshestvija/37238/V-centre-Kaliningrada-zaderzhan-vooruzhennyj-soldat-vermaxta.html

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"Definition of antisemitic has changed"


One of the last remaining Auschwitz survivors has launched a blistering attack on Israel over its occupation of Palestine, The Herald reports. Dr Hajo Meyer, 86, sparked a furious reaction from hardline Jewish lobby groups, with Dr Meyer branded an "anti-Semite" and accused of abusing his position as a Holocaust survivor.

Dr Meyer said there were parallels between the treatment of Jews by the Nazis and the treatment of Palestinians by Israelis. "The Israelis tried to dehumanise the Palestinians, just like the Nazis tried to dehumanise me. Nobody should dehumanise any other and those who try to dehumanise another are not human," he said.

Dr Meyer also insisted the definition of "antisemitic" had now changed. "Formerly an antisemite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an antisemite is somebody who is hated by Jews," the 86-year-old death camp survivor said as he began a lecture tour of Scotland.

"Maybe we should start calling "real anti-semitism" by another name," one internet commentator suggested. "Maybe something that does not suggest that the plight of this one group of people is completely unconnected to the plight of others? This may sound crazy, but I suggest the term racism."

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Twenty follows nineteen

How do you say "2010"? Coming off of "two thousand nine," you will probably say "two thousand ten." But you would be wrong, according to the National Association of Good Grammar.

"NAGG decrees that 2010 should officially be pronounced 'twenty ten,' and all subsequent years should be pronounced as 'twenty eleven,' 'twenty twelve,' etc.," proclaims the association's news release.

The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along; every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something." Twenty follows nineteen. Two thousand does not follow nineteen. It's logical.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL

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