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...emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with disgust, some with resignation, all quietly. The luckless bravery of the conquered is shown in the slow glance with which a miner glances behind him for pursuers at a secret meeting in the hills; powerless loathing is shown in the slow movement with which a housewife pulls down an open window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Documentaries Grow Up | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...without food, crammed into temporary French prison camps. Later they were packed into filthy freight cars and shipped to Germany. Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...hate easily. I've been through some of the toughest fighting in the Pacific, and yet I've seen no sign of real hatred in the hearts of our soldiers, sailors and marines. I've heard many speak with contempt for their foes, with disgust, dislike and many times with pity-but never with hatred. The Church, however, may arouse hatred against itself by a foolish campaign against a straw man (hatred) at this crucial moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...disgust at the maldistribution of food, at flagrant profiteering and the inability of Party functionaries to meet recurring war crises, a strong underground has developed. Despite a raid on a Milan printshop last month, which jailed five negotiators, the underground groups-Socialist, Liberals and Communists-last week have established a joint "Committee for Peace and Freedom" (TIME, May 3) and United Front organizations in at least six northern Italian cities. They claim the organization of a wave of strikes which began in March and at one point called out from 40,000 to 50,000 men. Through widespread circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hand That Held the Dagger | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Gratten in extreme disgust: "Some watch Officer--No watch--report to quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company E | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

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