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Berenbaum’s views on, 134

at Buchenwald, 304—5

burial considered for, 281, 288, 290—93, 295, 310, 312

Cyril Neville’s views on, 209

Denier Bud’s views on, 151—52

DNA testing of, 1, 65—71, 73—74, 76, 84, 109, 114, 116, 121, 134, 138, 152, 190, 256, 261, 266, 268, 304

Dominici’s Lunacy Hearing and, 176—77, 179

Dominici’s stories about, 69, 82—87, 94

Doña Argentina’s views on, 1—4

Duke’s views on, 251, 252

Farid’s views on, 272, 273

first vs. second history of, 312—13

Hochlenzer lampshade compared with, 242

Holocaust museums and, 107, 111—17, 121, 264—68

Hurricane Katrina and, 84—89, 94, 138, 190—91

Knigge’s views on, 294—96, 300

light vs. darkness and, 259—60

as myth, 113—14, 117, 119, 138, 153, 230, 252, 295

Rebennack’s views on, 203, 204, 208

Rosenberg’s views on, 156, 171

Schramm with, 327 n

Shiya’s examining of, 62—63

Skip’s dreams about, 94, 220—21

Skip’s purchase of, 43—45, 58, 63, 69, 82, 109, 114, 116, 138

tassels on, 57—58, 94, 304, 305

as Ziggy, 259, 265, 274, 277—80, 301, 305

lampshades, 13, 14, 17, 20, 49—53, 117, 164, 211—14, 234, 322 n

Berenbaum’s purchase of, 135

fake, 212, 214, 218

of Gein, 103

Hans’s views on, 225

Lovingston, 114—15

media coverage of, 17—19, 21, 71

at National Archives, 129

Stein’s views on, 216—17

Landeskriminalamt Thüringen (German FBI), 304, 305, 312

Landrieu, Mary, 306

Landrieu, Mitch, 306

Landrieu, Moon, 306

Landsberg Prison, 236

Lange, Henry, 132

Last Judgment, The (Michelangelo), 100

Latiolais, Jared, 68

Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (1935), 65

Leary, Timothy, 66

Lee, Harry, 193

Lee, Robert E., 191, 192, 193, 194

Lerner, Daniel, 146

Lester, Mrs. Ann Willie, 83

levee system, 31, 80, 84, 200, 292, 307

Levy, Anne, 247—48

Levy, Hyman, 196

Liberators (documentary), 303

Liberty Place, Battle of (1874), 195

Liebling, A. J., 243—44

Lie of Ulysses, The (Rassinier), 148

Life, 21, 121, 146

Lindbergh, Charles, 148

Lipstadt, Deborah, 149, 323 n

Literature or Life (Semprún), 157—61, 163, 230, 231, 323 n

Lomax, Alan, 197, 198

Lombroso, Cesare, 320 n

Long, Earl Kemp, 243—44

Long, Huey Pierce, 244

Long, Russell Billiu, 243

Longstreet, James, 195

Long Voyage, The (Semprún), 230—31

Los Angeles, Calif., 77, 111, 133

“Louis Armstrong + the Jewish Family in New Orleans, La.…” (Armstrong), 38

Louis Armstrong Airport, 73, 85, 203

Louisiana, 251

“separate car” law in, 195, 324 n

“701” law in, 186—87

see also specific places

“Louisiana 1927” (song), 31

Louisiana State University (LSU; Baton Rouge), 190, 203

Lovingston, Va., 114—15

Lublin, 19, 92, 229

Luce, Henry, 146

“Lucius Clay and Ilsa [ sic ] Koch” (song), 51

Lunacy Hearing, 176—77, 179

lynchings, see hangings

McCain, John, 39

McCartney, Paul, 43

McClure, Robert A., 145—46

McDivitt, James, 29

MacDonald, Kevin, 141

McDowell, Mississippi Fred, 27

Magical Misery Tour, 34—35

Main Office of Race and Settlement, 15

Majdanek camp, 19, 236

Manson, Marilyn, 110, 111

Mao Zedong, 9

Marcello, Carlos, 245

Marcuse, Herbert, 159, 213

Mardi Gras, 35—36, 39—41, 47, 78, 94, 193, 299, 305—11

Mardi Gras Indians, 291—92

Marks, David Hart, 289

Marks, Edwin, 289

Marks, Joseph Hart, 289

Marks, Marion, 289

Marks, Theodore, 289

Marks, Washington, 289

Marsyas, 99—100

Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School speech, 200—201

Maura, Antonio, 158

Maurer, Howard, 235

Mauthausen camp, 13

Mein Kampf (Hitler), 15, 120, 244

Memphis Minnie, 27

Mencken, H. L., 149

Mengele, Josef, 228, 267

Merkel, Angela, 302

Metaire, La., 291, 292

Metamorphoses (Ovid), 100

Michelangelo, 100

Michigan City, Ind. penitentiary, 131

Mickey Markey Park, 35, 38, 82

Milli Vanilli, 240

Minyard, Frank, 188—91, 282, 287—88

Mississippi Delta, 23, 26, 289, 319 n

mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), 68—69, 190, 251

Mob Rule in New Orleans (Wells-Barnett), 196—97

Möbus, Hendrik, 224

Montana, Allison (Tootie), 291—92

Morgan City, Miss., 27, 319 n

Morgen, Konrad, 143, 229, 236, 304

Morgenthau, Robert, 303

Morial, Dutch, 36, 306

Morial, Marc, 36, 306

Morton, Frederick, 321 n

Morton, Jelly Roll, 197—98

movies, 159—60, 209—10

see also specific movies

Munich Beer Hall Putsch, 8, 91

murders, 170, 186—88, 191, 303, 306

Murrow, Edward R., 92

Muses, 99—100

Museum of Natural History, 58, 274

Muslims, Islam, 206, 263, 269—70

My Awakening (Duke), 245

Mystick Krewe of Comus, 36, 193

Nagin, C. Ray, 36—37, 74, 80, 181, 188, 249, 281, 282, 293, 306, 309

Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen; film), 221

NASA, 28, 29, 320 n

Natal, 153, 154

National Archives, 129, 136

National Guard, 35, 40, 85, 177, 185, 291, 310

National Museum of Health and Medicine, 136

Native Americans, 100, 104, 224, 251, 292, 322 n

Nazi Murder Mills (newsreel), 103

Nazis (National Socialist Party), 8, 11—21, 50, 102—17, 139—40, 144, 204, 213, 226

art stolen by, 134

“Blood Order” of, 91

education and, 163

escape from, 67, 103, 147, 156

grab for racial hegemony of, 65

Heidegger and, 160

human skin atrocities of, 12—14, 17—21, 28, 44, 51, 57, 106, 120—21, 139, 156, 164, 166

market for memorabilia of, 108—10

particular/universal dichotomy and, 123

Rosenberg’s views on, 166, 167

Wannsee Conference of, 165, 195

Nazi Shrunken Heads (web video), 139—40, 142

Needle Man, 209

Negri, Pola, 159—60

“Negro Problem and Its Final Solution, The” (Hearsey), 195—96

neo-Nazis, 76, 111, 213, 299—302, 326 n

in Weimar, 221—26, 250

Neues Deutschland, 233

Neville, Aaron, 209, 210, 312

Neville, Cyril, 208—10

Neville Brothers, 208

Newfield, Jack, 278

New Jersey, 25, 26, 30, 43—46

Newman, Randy, 31

New Orleans, Battle of, 37

New Orleans, La., 29—47, 73—82, 173—210, 305—13

author in, 2, 179—84, 191—94, 199—201, 267

as Big Anxiety, 30—33

burial of the unclaimed dead in, 281—86, 287

the Bus in, 73—74, 219, 326 n —27 n

Bywater in, 34, 35, 37, 195, 204, 305, 310

cemetery bandit in, 76—79, 81, 176, 177, 180, 183, 189, 206, 320 n —21 n

Central City in, 35

Charity Hospital Cemetery in, 281, 286

Desire Projects in, 157, 323 n

Dispersed of Judah in, 288—90, 292—93

District Attorney (DA) office in, 186—87

DNA testing and, 68

education in, 243, 244, 247, 249

evacuations in, 31, 33, 85, 282

fires in, 35

French Quarter in, 34, 77, 174, 309

Holy Cross in, 87—89

homicides in, 186—88, 191

Hurricane Katrina in, 1, 33—41, 45, 68, 73, 74, 84—89, 157, 180, 181, 185, 186, 193, 199—200, 203, 246, 249, 256, 259, 281—86, 290, 292, 310, 323 n