Geschiedenis van een uitzonderlijk goed gedocumenteerde strafzaak, de veroordeling van een rijke moeder en dochter, die rond 1700 de Haagse gemoederen jarenlang bezighield.

A groundbreaking investigation into the mysterious gathering where the Nazi plan for genocide was reputedly decided. In early 1947, American officials in Germany stumbled across a document. Entitled "Secret Reich matter," it summarized the results of a meeting of top Nazi officials that took place on January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee. On one level, this document offered clarity: known as the Wannsee Protocol (and included here in full), it tallied up the Jews in Europe, carefully classified half and quarter Jews, and above all laid the groundwork for a "final solution to the Jewish Question." Yet the Protocol, among the most shameful documents in history, remains deeply mysterious. How can we understand this businesslike discussion of genocide? And why was the meeting necessary? Hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been shot in Russia or gassed in the camp at Chelmno. Test murders had been carried out in Auschwitz. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about the Wannsee Conference, is that we do not know why it took place. Mark Roseman, author of the acclaimed A Past in Hiding, seeks to unravel this double mystery and to explain how it was that on a snowy January day in 1942, a group of educated young men met to discuss the systematic slaughter of a people.

Drinkwater is iets waar we bij ons amper van wakker liggen. Wehoeven slechts de kraan open te draaien. Maar in steeds groteregebieden van de wereld maakt drinkwater echter het verschil tussenleven en dood. Meer dan 1 miljard mensen leven vandaag zondertoegang tot drinkbaar water en meer dan 2 miljard mensen levenin onhygiënische omstandigheden. Volgens Unicef sterft elke 15 seconden een kind door het drinken van besmet water. Miljoenenvrouwen en kinderen krijgen geen kansen op een beter leven omdat ze dagelijks vele uren verliezen met het transport van water. Die situatie zal wellicht nog verergeren vermits het waterverbruik in de wereld twee maal sneller stijgt dan de groei van de wereldbevolking.

Reviews the role of the public library in Great Britain and America in arranging festivals, exhibitions, lectures, and other activities not primarily concerned with books.

From June 28 until July 4, 1972, a group of scholars, all of them acade micians committed to the critical study of man and society which may be called political theory, met at The Rockefeller Foundation's VillaSerbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, to present papers on and discuss the subject of "The Open Society. " These papers, as revised, are published here, most of them for the first time. They reflect no consensus of view, nor were they intended to do so. That such a consensus did not emerge from the conference is not in our judgment a cause for regret; it may rather be regarded as a manifestation of a healthy and desirable plurality of approaches which itself indirectly tells us something important about the nature of the open society. All the papers deal in different contexts and from a variety of philosophi cal and theoretical perspectives with the interrelated themes of openness and the open society. Some of the panelists are skeptical of the capacity of modern industrial, or "post-industrial," society, with its heavy emphasis upon technological rationality to foster authentic openness under currently prevailing assumptions about man and nature.