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Norman F. Braun...
...Vatican Rag," "New Math," "Pigeons in the Park," "Masochism Tango," and, of course. "Fight Fiercely, Harvard." But at least a quarter of the two-hour long show included songs which focus on either nuclear destruction, global pollution, or the folk songs popular 15 years ago. And while "Werner Von Braun," "Who's Next," and "The Folk Song Army" elicits chuckles, the overriding feeling is one of nostalgia, not of aroused social awareness...
...director from 1952 to 1974 of NASA'S Cape Canaveral facility (now the Kennedy Space Center), overseeing such landmark projects as the launches of the first U.S. manned spaceflight and Apollo 11 's moon mission; of a heart attack; in Cocoa, Fla. Debus worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear warhead, the Redstone...
...with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Germany's pre-eminent stage and film director died last year at 36, a fat, wasted mess, bloated with drink and drugs like so many of his movies' protagonists. Yet his films, such as Ali and The Marriage of Maria Braun, were models of brisk precision (they had to be: he made 40 or so in only 13 years), and his camera was a most fastidious voyeur, observing every ruction of sexual violence with sympathy at a distance. Döblin and Fassbinder were a perfect book-and-movie match, and the young director...
Though Heidemann's Hitler diaries have proved to be the most audacious of all the Third Reich forgeries so far, other major scams have often bemused or confounded the experts. The first large-scale postwar forgery surfaced in 1947: a diary allegedly kept by Eva Braun during her affair with Hitler. According to Maser, Trenker, of the authors turned out to be a prominent film actor, Luis Trenker, who had known Braun. Right-wing Author David Irving ruefully recalls that in 1973 he nearly bought diaries purportedly written by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Nazi Germany's chief of military...