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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in J... ...caust, the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in motion only so late in World War II? • Why did the Nazi SS work hand-in-glove with Zionist ... ...ehind with the tip of a wooden club: “You heard it, move!” Move where? The other prisoners file away, putting distance between their emaciated se... ...family has it that we moved to Poland or Russia. An offshoot settled in the fertile Hungarian plains of Novi-Sad and then relocated to Budapest in p... ...erly – “The images make an odd and incoherent selection: Polish birth certificates, Hungarian tram schedules, restaurant menus in German, that sort ... ... some guards entertain themselves by inventing ghastly ways of butchering us, the prisoners. In Auschwitz death is omnipresent: you could die any m... ... presence. But I am terrified of pain, of being tortured. Even the most hardened prisoners who have survived for months in festering swamps, iced ...

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