Her capacity to compartmentalize was amazing, and revelations about her during the Nazi era have surely caused dismay.
That was far worse than anything witnessed in central Europe before the war, though it still pales by comparison with the horrors of the Nazi era.
It was a convenient piece of wartime propaganda - but one that allowed the Austrians subsequently to consign the Nazi era to a kind of oblivion.
From the Israeli point of view there was also unsettled business with the Vatican over Pope Pius XII's role during the Nazi era and in particular in relation to the Holocaust.
Whether you can use such a serious aspect of Germany's recent history for parody remains a matter of debate in the country, where the Nazi era is still quite a sensitive and painful topic for some to discuss.
The 5m (16ft) wrought-iron slogan which translates as "Work sets you free" is a potent symbol of many of the Nazi-era atrocities.
It also comes as historians and Jewish organizations continue encouraging nations to take unvarnished stock of their actions in Nazi-era Europe.
Ebay makes an effort to limit the availability of Nazi items in Germany, France and Austria, which legally restrict the trade in Nazi-era materials.
Noting that even one of the victims' lawyers had admitted that there was no definitive list, the newspaper contacted ten companies on one partial list and found that many were themselves unaware of the extent of their involvement in Nazi-era persecution.
But Jennifer Greene, a human-rights expert at the University of Minnesota Law School, came close in a recent article in which she argued that Shell is in the same legal position as the Nazi-era company when it comes to its potential liability for wrongdoing in Nigeria.
FORBES: Is Shell The Equivalent Of Nazi-Era Firm? Legally, Perhaps
His wares were Nazi memorabilia and autographs of personalities from the Hitler era, which he forged along with his luncheon vouchers.
Without understanding the Nazi, Fascist, and Vichy efforts to extend their Holocaust-era persecution of Jews to Arab lands, without understanding how the half-million Jews of Europe's Arab possessions fared under this threat, and without understanding the many different roles that Arab populations of these lands played during this experience, there could be no real meaning to specific stories of Arabs who saved Jews if they existed, at all.
It was an era of guerre a outrance, or war without limit, with Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers, and then the Soviet Union and its satellites, threatening America's and the West's liberal democratic values and our, and our allies', very existence.
Zbigniew Libera, whose political cartoons had him jailed for a year during the communist era, became a household name last year when he made a model of a Nazi concentration camp from Lego building blocks.
应用推荐