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Allied fire. One reason why some theologians feel especially sensitive to this issue is a residual sense of guilt for Christianity's failure to protest against morally debatable acts of World War II by the Allies. "The churches did not responsibly cry out against the saturation bombing of Dresden, about dropping the A-bomb," contends Jesuit John Coleman of Alma College. As a consequence, he says, churchmen today tend "to be very sensitive about the responsibility of silence...
...making porcelain. Augustus set Bottger up in a medieval castle in the cathedral city of Meissen. There the factory turned out its china until 1865, when it was moved to its present site on a slope overlooking the town. Because Meissen (pop. 47,000) is just 15 miles from Dresden, its chinaware has also come to be known as "Dresden china...
After wandering to Dresden, Vienna and Munich, Bellotto settled in Warsaw in 1767. He spent the next decade recording 26 views of the city for King Stanislas Augustus of Poland. It was to Bellotto's crystalline and chillingly immobile visions of Warsaw's palaces, churches and streets, crowded with 18th century Poles of every class, that the city's postwar reconstructionists turned for aid in rebuilding dozens of bombed-out structures. "Bellotto's use of the camera obscura made him able to achieve complete precision of proportions," points out Ministry of Culture Engineer Henryk Wasowicz...
...endowed his characters with enough depth, human good and human frailties so that neither victor nor vanquished monopolizes virtue. One cannot, even during the submariners' trial, condone their atrocity. But, Griffin wonders, was the crime any greater for the U-boat officers than for the pilots who bombed Dresden or the German scientists who built the buzz bombs that terrified London? And if so, why? Because the lifeboat victims were visible to the killer and therefore more human than the unseen victims of an air raid...
...viewing), and won an Oscar as the year's best feature documentary. For the most part, Watkins plays his horror story straight and as close to reality as possible: scenes showing the collapse of order, for instance, are based on the record of civilian be havior at Hiroshima, Dresden and other cities devastated during World War II. Sometimes, though, Watkins' passion for peace leads him into moments of maudlin melodramatics. At film's end, the sound track unconvincingly takes the press and television to task for supposedly refusing to discuss the possibilities of nuclear war, and asks...