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Adolf Eichmann, a lieutenant in the Viennese Gestapo, was pursuing a program of extortion and terror that would later be a model for the rest of Germany: Jews were dismissed from jobs and schools, imprisoned, taxed, fined, robbed, attacked, and, not infrequently, killed. Everyone was trying to get out. As the refugees grew poorer and their numbers larger, fewer countries were interested in taking them in.
Exile in Stockholm
Ruth Lewin Sime
Warum die klassische Antwort auf “Masken lieber auflassen” fast immer “also Masken und Lockdown für immer?!??” Ist:
Weil es keine plausiblen, wissenschaftlich belegbaren Argumente gegen Masken bis zur Möglichkeit der Impfung gibt.
Das ist eine strategische Kommunikation.
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“These poor people came and were staying at whatever was available, in the schools, and in the big bathhouse, and we spent our weekends touring and dancing for them — something I will never forget, because it was very emotional,” von Sydow [told the Jewish Journal](https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/101208/). “Some were carried in on stretchers to watch the shows; for many, it was their first entertainment after the hell of the camps.”
Von Sydow and his company sang the national anthems of the survivors’ home countries, giving them comfort before many of them passed away.
https://forward.com/culture/441221/when-max-von-sydow-entertained-holocaust-survivors/?gamp
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