Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Cleopatra, Roosevelt), whose books were once burned by the Nazis (he is a Jew), was again a banned author in Germany., This time he was verboten in the Russian zone for being too "militaristic...
...artist was Henry Koerner, a Vienna-born Jew. The painting, which was good enough to make Koerner's first one-man show an important event, represented his parents, liquidated by the Nazis...
...Anti-Semitism: "People forget, or rather do not want to know, that our God made man is a Jew . . . that His Mother is a Jewess, the flower of the Jewish Race; that all His Ancestors were Jews; that the Apostles were Jews, as well as all the Prophets; finally that our holy Liturgy is entirely drawn from Jewish books. . . . Anti-Semitism ... is the most horrible blow yet suffered by Our Lord in His ever continuous Passion...
Until 21 months ago, being a Jew in Berlin was hell-on-earth. Now Berlin Jews are entitled to more food than Gentiles; they also have a better chance of getting coveted visas to the U.S. So a number of German Gentiles, looking at the situation practically, have suddenly seen the wisdom of being converted to the Jewish faith...
...Minerva; Superfilm) is an Italian-made movie which juxtaposes the tyrannies and passions of Puccini's opera, La Tosca, and those of the Nazi domination of Rome. The story: a famous tenor hides a Polish Jew and a wounded British agent from the SS. His sweetheart [Anna Magnani], a famous soprano, misunderstanding his secretiveness, inadvertently betrays him through her jealousy. While the SS closes in, the Italian lovers sonorously sweat out La Tosca's similar story on the stage of Rome's Royal Opera House...