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Concentration camps? Comparisons to Nazi Germany? Oh yes

Well, I’ve got to weigh in here with a repeat posting of a piece I published in October 2017 about Aristides de Sousa Mendes, because how he dealt with frantic refugees in southern France after the German invasion is pertinent … Continue reading

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The deep moral question: “Do you stick your neck out?”

Two from the Times today link to my essays about Casablanca and Aristides de Sousa Mendes–who did stick his neck out. Will anyone in our so-called government have the moral strength to do the same? ICE courthouse arrests and deportations … Continue reading

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Homeland Security, home of America’s Maurice Papon(s)

Haitians, front page news in the Times. Two questions: Who was Maurice Papon? And when will we see an American Aristides de Sousa Mendes?

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