Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie hints that deep similarities exist between the cozy orphanage and a Dachau-like state prison near by. Sal suddenly finds himself up to his downy cheeks in an escape engineered by two desperate jailbirds, whom he met and befriended while they were sweating over some local ditchdigging. Impressed into helping them make a swampy getaway, Sal gradually gets into his hardening skull the idea that no bad man is all bad. The corollary: some of society's watchdogs (such as sadistic Prison Warden J. Carrol Naish) and false heroes (the millionaire trucker) can be absolutely no good...
...Metaxas locked him away in a medieval prison on the island of Corfu. In prison, learning that Stalin was still honoring his pact with Hitler, Zachariades ordered Greek Communists to cease resisting the 1940 Italian invasion. When Greece fell to the Axis, the Germans shipped Zachariades from Corfu to Dachau, where the U.S. Army found him in 1945 and flew him home to Greece...
...Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight off the Nazis, dislikes being told now by NATO partner Greece that its rule on Cyprus is like Dachau and Auschwitz. Even some responsible Greeks, apparently including Premier Karamanlis himself, were fearful that their propagandists were going too far. But Greece was in the midst of an election campaign, and moderation was not the mood of the moment...
...battle "to prevent Greece from being devastated." The Germans sent him to a VIP military prison in Germany. Here, to relieve the tedium, he gave a lecture to fellow prisoners in which he forecast an Allied victory. He was sent off to Oranienburg concentration camp, later to Dachau...
...Zachariades and Roula Koukoula looked one another over that summer day in Athens in 1945. Roula, dark-eyed and bosomy, already had a husband, having as a village schoolgirl run off with a Communist schoolteacher 14 years her senior. Niko, who had just arrived home from three years in Dachau, already had a Czech wife and a son. But such encumbrances can be voided when a girl Communist is ambitious, or when the man is Niko Zachariades, Communist boss in Greece and special protégé of Stalin. Niko deserted his wife and shortly after, Roula's high...