Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Nazi general to be executed for war crimes fell before a U.S. firing squad in Aversa, Italy last week. General Anton Dostler was shot because he had ordered the execution of 15 American soldiers who were captured behind German lines in March 1944 while trying to blow up a railroad tunnel. Dostler's defense was that he acted on Hitler's orders. The court held that, even with explicit instructions from above, to shoot uniformed men without trial is against the code...
...dances a SHAEF-patched U.S. Army captain staggered drunkenly off the dance floor. His 'Is there any son-of-a-bitching Russian in the house?' could be heard all over the suddenly quiet club. His bleary eyes fell upon my guest of the evening, Russian Senior Lieut. Anton Pablov. Making his way towards our table, the American officer shouted at the top of his lungs: 'Come on out and fight, you raping bastard...
Fortunately for Spellbound, Bergman smuggles her pathological hero upstate to her teacher and friend-cantankerous old Dr. Michael Chekhov (actor-director nephew of the late, great Anton) who resembles a kindly Sigmund Freud and so expertly milks his lines for humor that he steals scene after scene from Bergman's tense seriousness and Peck's dazed somnambulism...
...Heroine Olga, who married and divorced Michael Chekhov, is not to be confused with her distinguished aunt, Actress Olga Chekhova, widow of Michael's uncle, the great Anton Chekhov...
Unlike the Americans he had condemned, stocky, double-chinned General Anton Dostler, 54, got a hearing. Before a U.S. military commission convened in Rome's Palace of Justice, the General said Ja, he had ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside out. A Führerbefehl (order from Hitler) had decreed death for captured commandos and saboteurs. When junior officers protested, he countermanded his order, asked higher-ups what to do. Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring's headquarters said shoot the captives; after that, he had no alternative...