Word: afrika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desert Rats (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of sequel, made by the same studio, to the 1951 movie The Desert Fox, which was criticized in some quarters for glorifying the German Afrika Korps' Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The new picture is in the nature of an answer to these criticisms. Rommel is again played by James Mason, but the Desert Fox has undergone a change of dramatic color: no longer a generous desert fighter, he is now an arrogant and not very likable character.* The Desert Fox focused on the battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats...
...tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), Hamburg-born Reinhold Wilhelm Johannes Pabel was a tough little article. He had served two tours with Hitler's armies on the Russian front, had been wounded, and rushed back into combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary in the hard military life at Sidi...
...Brushed aside God Save the Queen as South Africa's national anthem in favor of Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa), a thundering Afrikaner hymn...
...glibbest was Hesketh Pearson's quick look at Disraeli in Dizzy. The most unabashedly sensational was Ethel Waters' crudely effective His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Onetime Brigadier Desmond Young wrote an uncritically sympathetic life of his wartime enemy in Rommel, and sales proved that the Afrika Korps' brilliant commander still held a place in U.S. imagination. The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering was a much better book than Rommel, but fat Hermann seemed to have faded from public interest. A story that was obviously surefire and proved it in bookstores was the Duke of Windsor...