And speaking of Germany trying to “transcend its gruesome past,” the New York Times relays the story of Yitzhak Ganon and his 65-year-long fear of doctors:

But when he became sick recently, his wife insisted that he visit one.  Stents were implanted to help his heart in a procedure made more risky because he was missing a kidney.  What happened to his other kidney explained his aversion to doctors, according to an account he gave Spiegel Online.

While held at the Auschwitz concentration camp, the 85-year-old Mr. Gannon told his doctors, he was the subject of an experiment by Joseph Mengele, the Nazi physician known as ?