Word: anti-nazi
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...first the Gestapo paid no attention to publishing; it was too busy with the banks. Then the House of Roy, along with other Polish publishers, received an order to turn in all their anti-Nazi books. (They published anti-Nazi Hermann Rauschning.) Through the winter Mrs. Kister carted 70,000 volumes to the Gestapo headquarters...
...just returned from a tour of bombed French cities. Propped up by occasional doses of benzedrine, the old man spoke less of collaboration than of unity and nationalism. But, at invasion showdown, he called upon French men to obey the Nazis. Pierre Laval, hated alike by Petain and by anti-Nazi French men, echoed the Marshal's words: "France must be dignified and disciplined in attitude. . . . We are not in the war." It was not enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them, moved to range Vichyfrance openly on the Nazi side. Brutal Policeman...
Ways of Death. Germany's Essener National Zeitung printed an indignant article about Norwegians who had been schooled in sabotage by the British Intelligence Service in Britain, returned to their homeland to practice their craft. Anti-Nazi saboteurs, said the Zeitung, got their instructions by radio from London, carried handbooks with suggestive queries: "What is your first and last step when using a time fuse? What are two fundamental rules when using pistols? Mention two fundamental principles of jujitsu. What are the most sensitive parts of the body where a blow might bring death...
...anonymous narrator (a German refugee) of Anna Seghers' novel of refugee life in France had never known the late anti-Nazi Mr. Weidel. But on the spur of the moment he took the dead man's suitcase. In it he found the unfinished manuscript of one of the most brilliant novels he had ever read. One of the characters seemed strangely like himself. It was as though the young refugee was destined to complete the novel with the events of his life...
...starring performance-as the sainted peasant girl in The Song of Bernadette. As she took her Oscar from last year's winner, Greer Garson, the brown-haired, brown-eyed one-time Western player bit her lip, smiled and said: "I am thrilled and I am grateful." For his anti-Nazi stand in Watch on the Rhine, grave-toned Paul Lukas led the men. Other statuettes: 1) best film of 1943, Casablanca; 2) best director, Casablanca's Michael Curtiz; 3) best supporting actor, Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier; 4) best supporting actress, Greek-born Katina Paxinou...