Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announced, as the West German Bundestag called on the U.S., Britain and Russia to suspend nuclear-weapons testing, that observers from 47 nations (not including India, the U.S.S.R. or its satellites) had been invited to witness a series of "low-yield" (tactical) nuclear-weapons shots in Nevada starting May 16. Purpose: "To familiarize them with U.S. testing policies and operations, especially safety procedures...
...some it may seem appropriate that the United States' latest series of nuclear tests should be held during Armed Forces Week. To others, however, the tests are inappropriate at any time. Albert Schweitzer, Pope Pius XII, the West German Bundestag, the British Labor Party, and the Japanese government have all declared their desire for a suspension of the test explosions...
...Devil's General (Gyula Trebitsch; Stebbins). "In a pinch," says the German proverb, "the devil eats flies." But how did he ever manage, in the puny form of Adolf Hitler, to gobble up all those meaty burghers of the German middle class? How could so many "good Germans" have been so bad? This picture, based on a play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer and magnificently directed by Helmut Käutner (The Captain of Köpenick), gives an answer that apparently satisfies the Germans. Made in Hamburg in 1955, the movie has been running for 18 months...
...film's hero, General Harras (Curt Jürgens), is admittedly modeled after the late Ernst Udet, the German ace of World War I who was a Luftwaffe general in World War II. Harras hates the Nazis, but not as much as he loves his air force, and he knows that if he gives up the one he will have to give up the other. So he goes along, year after year, swallowing his disgust ("After each sitting [i.e., conference] I feel like pulling the chain") and guzzling champagne-the picture of a man too weak...
...marvelous illusion of life in the Nazi ruling circles at the turning point of the war. The scene, as they paint it, is a seething roach nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party fanatics and servile chimney barons, of endless work, nonstop parties, public arrogance, private Angst, Germanic sentiment and rotting will, of spies, lies and a dirty, interminable fight for personal power. And through the scene but somehow above it, like let's-pretend Valkyries, wanders a tribe of strangely ambivalent German women: violent when they are wicked, passive when they are good...