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...merry-go-round. There are adroitly timed stock-shots (best: the men of the supremely confident Afrika Korps riding through the ecstatic farewells of civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement of its rendition by Frau Hermann Göring II, re-enacted at Berlin's Kroll Opera House). There is intelligent characterization (best: a subtle young Nazi radioman who introduces Lili Marlene at the height of the German victories, later had to announce major German defeats). But Lili Marlene is the least satisfying of Director...
...mine, but you will have to go back five generations to find a common ancestor. As far as I can remember I met Eric von Rosen only once in my life and that was about 20 years ago. Unfortunately for me, he is a brother-in-law of Hermann Göring, his wife's sister being the first wife of Hermann Göring. I am not in position to state anything regarding Eric von Rosen's political views, but I can state that he is in no way prominent in either Swedish politics or Swedish commerce...
...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...striking shots Joseph Goebbels (see cut), his worried face contrasting with his impeccable overcoat, sees what the Allied bombers have done, and thinned-down Hermann Goring (see cut), looking like a deflated blimp, lolls at "a conference with a worried Adolf Hitler...
...line generals were in the ascendancy at the Army's top, the Nazi party bosses had no intention of losing their control over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...