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Wilder was born in what is now Poland in 1906. His writing career first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...
...work. One of the films being shown in the series, “Five Graves to Cairo,” is a thriller that examines the conflicts of World War II within the verbal skirmishes between two military officers. “Here Wilder addresses the issue of the German camps of genocide, but it is done in a very comic way,” says Tom Conley, Lowell professor of Romance languages and literatures...
...Crimson reported that 95 percent of undergraduates opposed immediate US entrance into the War. Although some would dispute the poll’s validity due to The Crimson’s purported isolationist bias, the campus was consumed by a debate global in nature.As the threat of Japanese or German attack grew, so did student support for American intervention. Conant saw more success in turning student opinion as Britain and France came under duress. After France’s fall and the tremendous allied losses of the Battle of Britain, sentiment was no longer divided, according to Morton and Phyllis...
...reason is that only the handlers in the French, British, and German agencies that Nasiri claims to have worked for could confirm his legitimacy - and they'll never dish. "Even intelligence documents circulated within secret services won't ever say who informants are, or even identify exactly where they are active," the French official comments. Why such inner-circle security? Because circles can develop holes. "Getting informants deep inside operative groups is so rare - and the information obtained from them so potentially vital - that agencies will do anything to protect those sources," he explains. Such care also means anyone...
...NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - wanted a greater sharing of the burden, and to give ground commanders full authority to deploy troops as they see fit, rather than be required to refer back to defense ministries in Europe's capitals. But the caveats that keep Italian, French, German and Spanish troops out of the heavy combat zones in the south of the country were not significantly relaxed. The Poles offered up an additional 1,000 troops toward the 2,500 reserve force that NATO military staff consider crucial to prosecute the war, and the French were among...