Last evening on my drive home I was listening to MPR.  Reporter Dan Olson did a piece on a fomer St. Olaf professor who had recently passed away.  The remembrance of Reidar Dittmann included the relating of his time in Buchenwald as a prisoner of the Nazis.  Dittmann had been a part of the Norwegian resistance.  He noted that on the gate leading into Buchenwald was the motto:  Right or wrong, my country.  Profound when you think of the activities occuring in Buchenwald.  Later in the piece, a...
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