Word: franz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner...
...Moscow, where he had been New York Times correspondent (he is so no longer), Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...
...Died. Franz Werfel, 54, plump, pious Czech best-selling author of over 38 books (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Embezzled Heaven, The Song of Bernadette and the yet-unpublished Star of the Unborn), playwright (Jacobowsky and the Colonel), refugee U.S. resident since 1940; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Werfel, whose Forty Days was burned by the Nazis, fled Vienna and Paris two jumps ahead of Hitler's hordes, took refuge in Lourdes, France, where he heard of the vision of the little French Catholic girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and vowed to sing "her song" if he ever escaped...
...those who believe in God, no explanation of this story is necessary; for those who do not, no explanation will suffice." Franz Werfel's remark notwithstanding, even those who fall into the second group cannot fail to be moved by the powerful screen presentation of "The Song of Bernadette...
...Song of Bernadette" is a simple tale, and it is told with sympathetic restraint. The usual gaudy theatrics are nowhere present to mar the strength of Franz Werfel's tale of the miracle of Lourdes. The screen writing is first rate; if any film ever possessed material to inspire its audience, "The Song of Bernadette" is that picture. Franz Werfel's imaginative reproduction of a modern revelation makes a very superior movie...