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...Communist line. Recently the regime stepped up the pressure. The time had come, the clergy was told in a pro-regime church paper, "for every Catholic priest to consider what political and social position he would adopt in the future." Last week eleven Catholics went on trial in Budapest on charges of trying to set up "an elite Catholic youth corps" to overthrow the government...
Heavy Burden. On the witness stand appeared ruddy-faced, voluble Joel Brand, 55. In 1944 Brand was a leader of the Jewish community in Budapest. Eichmann summoned him. offered to exchange 1,000,000 Jews for 10,000 winterized trucks to be supplied by the U.S. or Britain. Eichmann promised that the trucks would be used only against the Russians. Dumfounded. Brand asked who would believe in such a fantastic offer. Replied Eichmann pompously: "A German officer keeps his word." Furthermore. Eichmann promised to release 100,000 Jews and destroy the Auschwitz gas ovens as soon as the first...
...time last week in the small Jerusalem courtroom, it was Jew v. Jew. Stately Baron Pinhas von Freudiger (his grandfather had been ennobled by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef), who was formerly a prominent Jewish leader in Budapest, took the witness stand. As he emotionally described his dealings with Adolf Eichmann in an effort to save the lives of Hungary's 1,000,000 Jews, a squat, burly man in a golfer's cap leaped to his feet screaming "Hypocrite! You duped us so you could save yourselves and your families! Our families were killed. You have...
...among Jews gave little comfort to Defendant Adolf Eichmann. Witness after witness nailed down his direct responsibility for the slaughter. Hungary's Regent-Dictator Admiral Nicholas Horthy was intimidated when a warning from the U.S. to call off Jewish deportation was followed up by a heavy bombing of Budapest, and ordered the deportation stopped. He was overruled by Eichmann. An Eichmann lieutenant proposed that Jews be deported at a rate of 3,000 a day; Eichmann-fearful that the advancing Red army might rob him of his prey-boosted the rate to 12,000 daily...
Skull-faced Actor Widmark plays a carefree American "adventurer for hire" who is offered $60,000 by the head of an international spy ring. He is to go into Budapest and whisk out a man wanted by the Hungarian government: Walter Rilla, a scholarly, idealistic anti-Communist who smuggles enemies of the state across the border into Austria. The story, filmed in Austria, Switzerland and England, turns on how Widmark finds Rilla while dodging the Hungarian secret police and the Russian army of occupation. Widmark also dallies with Picasso-eyed Sonja Ziemann, who plays Rilla's doughty daughter...