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Holocaust Papers
The series examines the Nazi records and postwar documents kept under seal by the Read Cross for more than 60 years.
Tags: holocaust; Nazi; concentration camp; SS; World War II; Red Cross; Dachau
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Show and Tell Tape #1
2004 IRE National Conference (Atlanta) Show and Tell Tape #1 features the following stories: 1)Phil Williams (WTVF-Nashville) A hidden camera investigation proves that special interest lobbyists are buying Tennessee lawmakers. 2)Stephen Stock (WESH-Orlando) An investigation into new home inspections found inspectors conducting too many inspections daily with a passing rate as high as 99 percent in one county. 3)Anna Werner and David Raziq (KHOU-Houston) Children as young as 11-years-old were being physically abused at the juvenile probation department in Harris County, Texas. 4)Tony Pipitone (WKMG-Orlando)The Brevard School District in Orlando requested additional funding from the federal government for poorer schools but put that money toward helping the district as a whole. 5)Brian Collister (WOAI-San Antonio) A national report claimed that San Antonio police were among the best in the country for not targeting minority motorists, but an investigation proved police officers skewed the data. 6) Jacqueline McLean (KGMB-Honolulu) A cemetery that hasn't been licensed in nine years makes room for more bodies by removing old ones. 7) Chris Halsne (KIRO-Seattle) Mapping software found 605 sex offenders living near day cares statewide. None of the day cares were ever notified. 8) Bog Segall (WITI-Milwaukee) Many inmates use their phone privileges to call their victims, intimidating them in the hopes they won't show up at trial. 9)Larry Posner (Inside Edition) An investigation into Pitts, one of the largest door-to-door magazine sellers in the country, found the company charging high rates, abusing employees and hiring felons. 10)Randy Travis (WAGA-Atlanta) This undercover investigation found a state court judge having 19 drinks and then getting in his car to drive. 11)Jim Strickland (WSB-Atlanta) This investigation exposed forgery and fraud by an Atlanta Booting company. 12)Bebe Emerman (KIRO-Seattle) A problem with the powercord of one brand of oscillating fans was linked to 20 house fires. 13)Elisabeth Leamy (WTTG) This story discusses the lives of those held in concentration camps and the Nazi tattoos they received.
Tags: tape; show and tell; investigative; Atlanta; no transcripts; IRE
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Hitler's Lake
60 Minutes II examined one of Hitler's schemes during WWII: "160 Jewish prisoners were hand-picked from concentration camps and forced to work on forging the British pound note and later the American hundred dollar bill. At war's end, today's equivalent of $4.5 billion in pound notes was being circulated in Europe, Africa and South America. ... We located one of Hitler's last living counterfeiters, Adolf Burger. Not only was this gentleman able to tell us the story of the fake bills, but he also shared his own personal odyssey; one that began in Auschwitz with his wife and ended in Ebensee, Austria, five death camps later, a widower."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; WWII; Adolf Hitler; counterfeit; war
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Paul Parks: A Hero's Story Exposed
A Boston Globe investigation into the a local political figure's past reveals that the politician has lied for years about how his involvement in World War II. For many years, Paul Parks, a civil rights leader in Boston and the former Massachusetts education secretary, has had a reputation as "a bridge-builder between black and Jewish communities based on his credentials -- unquestioned for decades -- as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945." Parks also is known to tell dramatic stories about his involvement in the D-Day Invasion at Normandy. A review of military records, however, reveals that Parks, in fact, did not assist in the D-Day Invasion or the Dachau liberation.
Tags: Paul Parks; World War II; Massachusetts; Jews; blacks; Boston; D-Day; Normandy; Invasion; lying; education secretary
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Search for Justice
ABC News 20/20 reports "an investigation of one of Germany's largest pharmaceutical companies Bayer and its role in human medical experimentation on concentration camp inmates during World War II. .... documented for the first time the depth and scope of Bayer's involvement in human medical experiments in concentration camps. The research protocol in (one) case involved infecting healthy children with life-threatening diseases like typhus and then using experimental Bayer vaccines to see if they could combat the disease...."
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Defending the indefensible
The New York Times Magazine chronciles the story of a Serb accused of establishing concentration camps in Bosnia. The situation presents a test for his lawyers, for the international tribunal at The Hague -- and for the post-cold-car world.
Tags: Genocide Croatia Muslim
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The dilemmas of experimenting on people
A half-century after the creation of the Nuremberg Code of research ethics, scientists still struggle to strike a balance between human rights and medical progress. Technology Review examines the struggle doctors face in trying to live up to the code.
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Decision near on future of former guard
Nikolaus Schiffer, who worked at Nazi death camps and lied about his army service to obtain a US visa, now faces deportation. The Office of Special Investigation, an agency in the Justice Department, is prosecuting his case.
Tags: Nazis; World War II; Concentration camps; Immigration
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Middle Managers of Genocide
The Nation investigates the horror surrounding the creation of Omarska, a concentration camp in Northwestern Bosnia run by Bosnian Serbs. The article describes the Serbian men who ran the camp and the soldiers' past experiences in Nazi concentration camps. Many Bosnian Serbs deny Omarska was a true concentration camp or that it even existed. (June 10, 1996)
Tags: Vulliamy Middle Managers of Genocide Mass murder 5 pgs.
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Rights and Wrongs features an extended excerpt from "The Yellow Wasps," a documentary film directed by Ilan Ziv and produced by Rory O'Connor. It tells the story of Serbian paramilitary groups killing Muslims as a means of ethnic cleansing in the town of Zvornik. Because the Muslims had no organized army in Zvornik the Yellow Wasps had free reign to do as they pleased. (May, June 1995)