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...first half of the film expounds the character and background of the boys with a warmth and sensitivity that soon makes the moviegoer care very much what happens to them. Jürgen, son of a rich landowner, is passionately proud of a father fallen for the Fatherland and boyishly eager to inherit his epaulets. Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter, but even so is devoted to his devoted mother. Karl, son of the town's beauty-parlor proprietor, is an awkward, intense...
...skeletons intended to prove the racial "inferiority" of Jews? Eichmann answered stiffly: "I am not a dealer in skulls of the dead." What then was he? Eichmann's eager reply: "I was only a subordinate in the SS, loyal, obedient and happy to be of service to my fatherland. I fulfilled my duty with a clear conscience and a believing heart." But what was duty? Eichmann again had a ready answer: obedience. "I was always used to discipline, from my childhood until 1945," he explained, "discipline that required my unreserved, unconditional obedience." With pride, he added: "If somebody told...
...ingeniously planted U.S. diplomatic dispatch, purportedly came from Elim O'Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...
Pridefully, Trujillo's radio station La Voz Dominicana reported the letter of capitulation addressed to "the benefactor of the fatherland" by the six bishops: "We are coming to Your Excellency with the wish to continue cooperating. There has been a deterioration in relations that we are the first to deplore. None of us could have suspected the misinterpretation given our pastoral letter. We are the first to condemn such distortions of truth. We do not say that there have been no imprudent acts in the ecclesiastical sphere. We acknowledge them. To this end, we propose 1) to remind...
...church itself hesitated. The hier archy was reluctant to jeopardize state-granted privileges. Then last summer a so-called Catholic organization called "For the Cross and Fatherland" suddenly materialized. Small in numbers, it looked nevertheless like Castro's bid to set up in Cuba the sort of National Catholic Church that Communists have tried to ar range behind the Iron Curtain...