Word: dresdeners
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...during the War often referred to a “zero” hour or year at its end, as Roberto Rossellini did in the title of his 1947 film, Germany Year Zero. At the simplest level, these nulls name a fact visible all over Germany—in Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin, and the other cities leveled by Allied bombing, where the absence of pre-1945 buildings best testifies to what happened...
...image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say can pull off. Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding audience running toward us." After the first wave of bombs, Thomas rushes out into the firestorm to find his girlfriend...
...appropriately enough, "Does the Koran Condone Killing?" [Sept. 20] and then focused primarily on the beheading of hostages by insurgents in Iraq. Why not ask whether the Bible condones killing and explore the bombing, shelling and deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq? From the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo to the nuclear holocausts of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the U.S. appears to have no particular scruples about causing civilian deaths. Dennis Green Alameda, California...
...appropriately enough, "Does the Koran Condone Killing?" [Sept. 13], and then focused primarily on the beheading of hostages by insurgents in Iraq. Why not ask whether the Bible condones killing and explore the bombing, shelling and deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq? From the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo to the nuclear holocausts of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the U.S. appears to have no particular scruples about causing civilian deaths. Dennis Green Alameda...
...Nazi party." The NPD is reviled in Germany. When the party's Saxony leader, Holger Apfel, appeared on a nationally televised panel show on the night of the election wearing a brown business suit, politicians from other parties walked off the set. The next day, protesters showed up in Dresden, the state capital, with signs reading nazis out. Even in the east, the party's support may be shallow. Hans-Joachim Maaz, a political commentator in the eastern city of Halle, says it's important to distinguish between hard-core NPD supporters and the people who plumped for them...