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...moment, five new films that touch on the Nazis' Final Solution - Defiance, The Reader, Good (which prompted TIME critic Richard Schickel to call for a moratorium), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Adam Resurrected - are in theaters. A sixth, Valkyrie with Tom Cruise, is a Holo-cousin: it details a 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler. Taylor notes that since the early 1990s, when Steven Spielberg was preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defiance: Beyond Holo-kitsch | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

Visiting Professor of German Eric Rentschler, of the University of California at Irvine, has compiled a varied reading list featuring recent works such as Holo-caust scholar Saul Friedlander's Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, dissecting the magic and myth that have shrouded recollections of Hitler in popular culture; Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, analyzing President Reagan's 1985 controversial visit to a Holocaust cemetery; and Spielberg's Holocaust, a volume of essays analyzing the strengths and limitations of Schindler's List in bridging cinema and history...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: ELEVEN ELECTIVES | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...called Pacheco a "Schindler of East Timor", referring to the well-known German businessperson credited with saving the lives of about 1,000 German Jews during the Holo-caust...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Ramos-Horta Requests Support for East Timor | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

...that's what Yale's 5-2 victory over the Crimson last Friday would indicate. The senior captain, playing his last match against the Elis, lost to his New Haven counterpart and three-year rival, Captain Jerry Fehr, 1-up in a match which was undecided until the 18th holo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Lose at New Haven, 5-2, As Fehr Tops Cooney, 1-Up, at End | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...year term the Republicans have again nominated a complete neophyte to politics. Bill Purtell has been a businessman all his life and a good one; he is president of the Holo-Krome Screw Company, which, despite the fact that it is non-unionized, has enjoyed admirable labor relations. Purtell's big drawback in industrial Connecticut is the fact that in the years since 1947 he has been both vice-president and president of the Connecticut Association of Manufacturers, an organization which has consistently opposed welfare measures in the state. Bill Benton's speechwriters are working hard on the record...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Campaign | 11/1/1952 | See Source »

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