1881: Triple landslides bury Elm, a village in Switzerland. 1943: Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia are liquidated. 1963: Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan, killing 330 people and causing $ ...

The Nazi reign of terror lasted from 1933 to 1945, a time when mounting affronts to Europe's Jews, Gypsies, and others gave way to the most unspeakable atrocities ...

As Bob Dylan sang: "The Germans now, too, have God on their side." More obscurely, unionist activist Florence Reece wrote the song Which Side Are You On? - made less obscure by Pete Seeger.