Word: anhalter
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WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed...
...epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive events and determining attitudes of World War II. He missed the mark, but with the assistance of Director Edward Dmytryk and Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt. he has produced a broad and swiftly flowing film which carries on its narrative stream two performances-by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift -of unusually deep draft...
...Germany attacked Russia in 1941, put him to work indoctrinating German officers taken prisoner. Zaisser, as he now called himself again, helped build a renegade German army inside Russia. But it was four years before Stalin let him go back to Germany. In 1945 he turned up in Saxony-Anhalt as chief of police. His real job was building up the 130,000-man Volkspolizei, the paramilitary Communist police army in East Germany. He was made State Security Minister in the East German government...
...Communist government decided to dissolve these provinces: Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...
Worst hit was the center of town. The Potsdam, Stettin and Yorckstrasse railroad stations were destroyed. Traffic into the Anhalt station was stopped because the tracks on the approaches were ripped up. From great piles of coal stored at the damaged Lehrte station smoke mushroomed thickly...