Many of those who participated in the deportation and mass murders treated possessions of Jews as poolable assets for their own personal use.

The kiddie pool was shallow so the children would be safe, which meant it was much warmer than the adult pool.

“[With] the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics. “It can always be ‘mañana’ every day.”

While this is the least accurate of the four approximations discussed here, it has the charm that the numerator is the zenzizenzic of 4 […]