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Knut Hamsun was a hero to his fellow Norwegians and a novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. But in the '30s, he espoused Nazism, and when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, he collaborated with them, later even wrote a glowing obituary of Hitler. After the war, he scarcely deigned to offer any explanation, nor would he acknowledge the slightest regret...
...this grim eccentric that Tankred Dorst, a West German playwright who was a P.O.W. in the U.S., has based his play. He asks an enormous imaginative effort from a European or U.S. audience: the moral issues of World War II still seem crystal clear to the countries that fought Hitler. Stereotypes about people therefore persist. Yet Dorst commands respect for Hamsun as a man who above everything else must be true to himself- whether he is right or wrong is to him irrelevant. With masterly compression, the novelist's years of trial are made into a resounding study...
...Spanish scene came in July, 1936, when as the commander of the Army of Africa he led the "nationalist" rebel forces in their campaign to overthrow the legitimately elected Popular Front government of the Second Republic. In a bloody three-year conflict, Franco's armies, aided crucially by Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy, overcame the underequipped soldiers of Republican Spain. Troops chanting the slogan "Long live Death" destroyed the hopes of workers and peasants for a transformed Spain...
...Bashevis Singer nothing could be worse than to become obsessed with the Holocaust. In "The Yearning Heifer," a Polish immigrant praises the writer/narrator for his column in the weekly Yiddish paper. "The news is all bad. Hitler this, Hitler that. He should burn like a fire, the bum, the no-good. What does he want from the Jews?" But this passes quickly from the story--as deeply and sincerely as it is felt--so the narrator can talk about his main subject...
...some of the moral ambiguities that are involved in so sensitive a subject as foreign policy murders. What is inexcusable in peacetime becomes heroic in war−and not all intelligence operatives easily recognize the difference between the two. In wartime, it is surely justifiable to plot against, say, Hitler. Would it have been right for Americans to try to kill him in 1936? The committee, however, draws a firm distinction between wartime and peacetime assassination attempts. It recommends a law that would make it a criminal offense for anyone, including a President, to engage in assassination plots against...