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"Even in the 1950s and 1960s, convicted war criminals were warned again and again by foreign office staffers to not travel to certain countries where they might have been arrested," Conze said.
Truth about German diplomats' collusion in Holocaust is revealed James Meikle 2010
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Prof. Conze said the reason wasn't clear but that the requirement could have served as an intimidation tactic to ensure they toed the line.
A German Ministry's Nazi Past Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010
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In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, Conze said that documents indicated Franz Rademacher, head of the ministry's so-called Jew department, travelled to Serbia during the Third Reich to help organise the killing of Jews in eastern Europe.
Truth about German diplomats' collusion in Holocaust is revealed James Meikle 2010
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Some Buddhist scholars Edward Conze, for example have felt that the Zen emphasis on satori as the sine qua non of Buddhist experience is somewhat outside the mainstream of Buddhist tradition.
Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment' Lewis Richmond 2011
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Former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was one beneficiary of the diplomats 'postwar effort, Prof. Conze said.
A German Ministry's Nazi Past Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010
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'Spiritual aspirations threaten to be swallowed up by this senseless bulk into a sort of nightmare of meaninglessness,' wrote the Anglo-German scholar Edward Conze (1904-1979).
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"The German foreign ministry collaborated with the Nazis 'violent politics and especially assisted in all aspects of the discrimination, deportation, persecution and genocide of the Jews," said Eckhart Conze, of Marburg university, one of four historians who helped prepare the official report on the ministry's involvement in the Holocaust.
Truth about German diplomats' collusion in Holocaust is revealed James Meikle 2010
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Though there were a handful of notable resistance members in the diplomatic corps, such as Gerhart Feine, an embassy director in Hungary who unobtrusively prevented many Jews from being deported to death camps, and Adam von Trott zu Solz, who was executed for his role in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to kill Hitler, there was no resistance center to speak of, Prof. Conze said.
A German Ministry's Nazi Past Vanessa Fuhrmans 2010
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Buddha on Vulture Peak in the sixth century B.C.E., and both aim at nothing "less than the total extinction of the self" (Conze xxix).
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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Conze did not elaborate, but the United Nations has asked the
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