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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 17:26 UTC

Tag: Nazi genocide

  • Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:19 UTC

    Germany's greatest post WWII writer and Nobel Prize winner dies at 87

    For many he was the voice of a German generation that came of age in World War II and bore the burden of their parents' guilt for the atrocities of the Nazis.

    German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-shouldered man with a drooping mustache, Grass spurned the German tradition of keeping a cool intellectual distance, insisting that a writer's duty was to be at the frontline of moral and political debate.

  • Sunday, October 13th 2013 - 11:47 UTC

    Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi officer Erich Priebke

    Priebke lived normally with his name in Bariloche since 1949

    Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died in Italy, officials in Buenos Aires said on Friday. Priebke died in Rome aged 100 after serving nearly 15 years under house arrest for a World War II massacre in Italy for which he never expressed remorse.