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November 6, 2018 at 6:00pm
The Long Road Home: A Veteran’s Tale
The Jackson Center will host "The Long Road Home: A Veteran's Tale" as part of the Center's "Defenders of Freedom Project" on Nov. 6, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.
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This Day in Nuremberg
The Concentration Camps
The first major submission on the concentration camps was made by Thomas Dodd on Dec. 13, 1945. "The concentration camp was one of the fundamental institutions of the Nazi regime in the battle against the Jews, the Christian Church, labor, those who wanted peace and opposition and nonconformity of any kind.
This excerpt displays evidence relating to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, photographs of tattooed human skin taken at the Buchenwald Camp and a shrunken human head. He also presented evidence of death books kept at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Read More
The First Amendment grew out of an experience which taught that society cannot trust the conscience of a majority to keep its religious zeal within the limits that a free society can tolerate. I do not think it any more intended to leave the conscience of a minority to fix its limits. Civil government cannot let a group ride rough-shod over others simply because their "consciences" tell them to do so.
Douglas v. Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157 (1943) at 179