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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about blues, Leavenworth, Ten with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'Hunting the Truth'
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conversations.value: Hunting the Truth
  We left Paris on the night of Saturday, March 20, arriving in Cologne at 3:00 a.m. That morning, we ate breakfast together, but by the time we went to pick up our second rental car—a five-door Mercedes 220, the most common car in Germany at the time—we were already a few hours late. That delay was fatal: Hertz had rented the car to someone else.
  In the end, we had to be content with a three-door Mercedes 280, a luxurious cream-colored automatic. This vehicle had Frankfurt registration plates, too, which made it especially conspicuous, and the lack of back doors made the logistics of the abduction a whole lot harder.
  We had come up with a good plan, and now we began to rehearse the ballet of cars that would enable us to abduct Lischka. From the place where we snatched him, we would drive the Mercedes to a little forest nearby. Here, we would transfer Lischka to the Renault. The forest was completely isolated, and to get there you had to take narrow roads, making it easy to find out if we were being followed. Yet once we reached the spot where the transfer would take place, we were only about five hundred yards from the highway that skirted Cologne and would take us to the Belgian border.
  On Sunday, we checked out these locations and finalized our plan of action. We left the apartment. David drove the Renault, and Marco the Mercedes. Almost immediately, the two cars became separated, and it took half an hour before we found each other again outside the apartment. We skipped lunch that day, which annoyed Élie. Our photographer had an extraordinary and somewhat exasperating capacity to focus on pointless details, while the rest of us were obsessed with the risky operation we were about to carry out. We decided to prepare ourselves psychologically: each of us had to repeat every tiny movement we would make, in order for it to become second nature.
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conversations.value: I was grateful for the assistance of Charles Libman, an experienced trial lawyer and former Resistance fighter, in the Leguay case. When it came to direct contact with the investigating judge, Martine Anzani, who had instantly grasped the importance of the dossier and who had shown the courage to pursue the case irrespective of outside pressure, everything was fine, but I had no experience with how things worked in the Palais de Justice. Charles Libman's help was indispensable in guiding me through that labyrinth of jargon and required forms.
  AT HOME IN PARIS, around 1:00 a.m. on July 6, 1979, we heard an explosion. We were not sleeping. In the underground parking garage, our car was blown up, and all the cars around it were damaged. We found out later, after the investigation, that there had been an explosive device equipped with a timer, presumably intended to explode in the morning, as I was taking our daughter, Lida, to kindergarten. We received lots of death threats during this period.
  The organization Odessa claimed responsibility for the car bomb and sent us a letter threatening further reprisals: "We warn you: our German comrades are waiting for you in Cologne. They will be armed and their determination will be as absolute as the hatred they feel for you. They have taken the blood oath: if Klarsfeld comes to our city, we will kill him!!! So, Mr. Klarsfeld, do you still intend to go to Cologne? Yeah? Then go ahead! GO AHEAD!!!"
  At 6:45 a.m., three hundred deportees and children of deportees marched through the streets of Cologne, chanting and holding up banners demanding that the Nazi criminals be convicted. The atmosphere in the courthouse was chaotic. The courtroom where the trial was due to take place was far too small: there was room for only seventy journalists, who had come from all over the world, and about fifty members of the public. There was soon fighting between the protesters and the police tasked with maintaining order.
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conversations.value: SS (Schutzstaffel); campaigns against members of; French collaboration with; gassing at concentration camps by; Kiesinger and; neo-Nazi admiration of; trials of officers of; see also names of specific officers
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  Beate and Serge Klarsfeld are renowned French activists whose work apprehending Nazi war criminals, seeking justice for victims and survivors of war crimes, and establishing the historical record of the Holocaust has brought them international recognition. Recipients of France's Legion of Honor and Germany's Federal Order of Merit, they were named UNESCO Ambassadors of Genocide Prevention by the United Nations in 2015 and were granted honorary Israeli citizenship by the Israeli government in recognition of their support of the Jewish cause. Beate is the recipient of the Jabotinski Prize, and both Beate and Serge have received the HIAS Liberty Award and the Raoul Wallenberg Prize. You can sign up for email updates here.