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Still 71 years after the fall of the Third Reich, Germany has criminal proceedings scheduled to try around a dozen former SS officers.  Next month the trial of Hubert Zafke has been set, a former medical orderly at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp from August 15, 1944 to September 14, 1944.  The …

Via NY Times: The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families. The book, “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer, traces …