Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Achtung, Achtung!" In a Hamburg suburb, Ollenhauer lambasted German rearmament with the particularly hollow charge that it was lowering Germany's standard of living, then motored out to the East-West border village of Eichholz on what he hoped would be a dramatic demonstration of his concern for German reunification. Ahead of Ollenhauer's Mercedes went a grey Volkswagen with loudspeakers chanting: "Achtung, Achtung...
...Nutcracker Suite. Critic John Crosby, currently on leave from his TV syndicated column to polish up on his broadcast manners, will host. The Twentieth Century has made one of TV's most extensive film searches to document great events and personalities: Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, the German V-2 rocket, the Nürnberg trials, the love story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Don Whitehead's version of the FBI story. Globetrotter Lowell Thomas brings seven color adventure films back from New Guinea, Nepal, the Arctic, South Seas and Yucatan: and Conquest will showcase "breakthroughs...
Died. Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Admiral Lord Mountevans, 75, British Royal Navy hero, whose exploits dot the high seas from England to China, author of sea-adventure stories (Pirate's Doom); in Golaa, Norway. Evans commanded the famed destroyer Broke (in 1917), which torpedoed one German raider, rammed a second and vanquished its cutlass-armed boarding party in old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat...
...malignant tides, the movie ruthlessly sends its heroine into action for both sides; yet she proves to be neither turncoat nor indecisive fool nor coward. Dr. Helga Reinbeck (played with passionate intensity by Europe's fast-rising Maria Schell) is serving as head nurse in a German field hospital. By a ruse, a band of partisans whose own doctor is severely wounded succeeds in kidnaping her. After the partisans' doctor dies in her care, they offer her a grim choice: help us or follow him. The decision tears Helga in two, not because she fears execution, but because...
...banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize her as a figure of mercy transcending their strife. Both sides call for a ceasefire. Dr. Helga delivers her package to her enemies, staggers back toward her German compatriots, collapses upon the bridge. The cease-fire was ordered too late. A stray bullet-little matter whose-has mortally wounded...