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...mystery, parable and paradox, and straight description of an unusual war. At its center is a brief sketch of a now completed circle of Jewish history -from the Roman razing of the great Temple in Jerusalem and the diaspora, through the aftermath of Christ's crucifixion and Hitler's Final Solution, to the recapture of the Wailing Wall on the Temple grounds by Israeli soldiers in 1967. Outwardly, it is a cycle from defeat to victory. Inwardly, it represents the record of a profound moral dilemma. For the ancient Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed only three weeks after...
...Russia," he continued, after reflecting a moment, "where they've never had a free press-not under the Czars and not now-a writer can have an effect. He can say something which others haven't the right to say. In the thirties, I wrote things against Hitler, and I wouldn't take back any of them. Only "-and he smiled-" I feel a little embarrassed that I was the only person who gained anything from them-my reputation, you know. All the poems I wrote didn't save one Jew from being gassed." He paused and lit a cigarette...
...midtwenties, you can't imagine how safe life seemed. My father had been at the war, but I had never thought any thing might happen to him. At Berlin, I realized the foundations were shaking." And at Berlin, surrounded by the hysteria, madness, and mission that culminated in Adolf Hitler, Auden wrote extraordinary poetry, and people noticed. The people included T. S. Eliot, who, as an editor at Faber and Faber, published Auden's first book. And so, Auden's career began...
...also denounced the junta's suspension of civil liberties and covert press censorship. "If you compare it with the press law of Dr. Goebbel's under the Hitler regime, it is very similar," he said...
...Damned's details and artistic decisions clearly indicates the intentions of a strong-willed artist. The very presentation of the film's material shouts out Visconti's moral and political position on Nazi Germany. If the Damned have ever existed, they were the industrial aristocrats who brought Hitler to power. Visconti's weighty melodrama of almost impersonal passion was the only just way to describe their self-destruction...