Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guilty" at all. A large part of the picture merely shows Mr. Farrar's mother (Barbara Everest), political-minded aunt (Flora Robson) and fellow townsmen slowly getting used to the obvious. Miss Zetterling's brother (Albert Lieven), on the other hand, is as fanatical a Nazi as Hitler himself; so there is no very interesting question about brother's guilt...
Period Sets. Sixty-three-year-old Lion Feuchtwanger is a professional hand at this and a capable one. Writing in pre-Hitler Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from...
Kurt von Schuschnigg, 49, last Chancellor of Austria before Hitler moved in, arrived in Manhattan from Italy with wife Vera and six-year-old daughter Cissy, promptly headed for Brooklyn, declaring his hope to settle there. A visitor for two months last spring, he now returned, said he, as "a refugee, a displaced person." His plan for the future? "To live a quiet life...
Died. Sophie Paschkis Lehar, 69, wife of Operetta King Franz Lehar; of angina; in Zurich, Switzerland. Lehar refused a Nazi demand that he leave Sophie (a Jewess), escaped persecution in Germany because his Merry Widow was Hitler's favorite operetta...
...tobacco merchant, Hermann attended Pastor Niemöller's Evangelical Church, spent most of the war years in school. After being inducted into an antiaircraft unit with his teachers and entire class, he decided that he was "willing not to fight for Hitler" and soon deserted. Hermann, who thinks the trouble with his countrymen is that they have been educated in "servile obedience," hopes to bring back some of the Schenectady spirit with...