holocaust

A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland has destroyed one of the wooden barracks and about 10,000 shoes of Holocaust prisoners displayed at the Nazi death site. The Majdanek museum says the cause of the fire is suspected to be electrical. Damage is estimated at 1 million zlotys, or...

David Irving is not a man with whom many of us would want to be associated. The British-born historian has made a career peddling books and speeches claiming that the Holocaust and Adolph Hilter's realm of genocide are fabrications. He's run afoul of strict laws in Austria forbidding statements of...

In Christopher Buckley's Thank You for Smoking, the main character, Nick Naylor, is a tobacco lobbyist. As his job pushes him to ever deeper levels of moral depravity, he repeatedly states, half-ironically, that he claims the Nuremberg defense: at the end of the day, he is "only following orders."...