Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hlinka Guardsmen reappeared (armed again) and beside their uniforms were seen those of Slovak Nazi Storm Troopers. Jewish shop windows began to crash. And just as before Munich, the German press reported atrocities: "The Czechs' blood terror against Germans and Slovaks creates an unbearable situation...
Second hero was the late Father Andreas Hlinka, founder of the Slovak autonomous movement. His followers last week prepared Masaryk's eggs for scrambling. Members of the pro-Nazi, anti-Czech, anti-Jewish Hlinka Guard have long plotted, through the semi-autonomous Slovak Cabinet, to proclaim Slovakia's independence, relying on Germany's support and subsequent protection. To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good. In any case, the weaker Czecho-Slovakia becomes the more potent becomes Germany's dominion over...
Much of Crisis is thus devoted to shots of urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...
Although the story concerns the persecution of Jewish Dr. Mamlock, it is pointed at a greater purpose than racial equality. Behind almost every incident lies calculated Communist propaganda. Dr. Mamlock's removal from his clinic and his brutal treatment are minor themes which bind together a bitter denunciation of Nazi methods. Definitely meant for foreign consumption and as a guide to Communist technique, the picture is aimed to destroy the theory that Communists set the Reichstag fire and opposed the welfare of Germany. The moviegoer should note these pointed thrusts of propaganda, but pay greater attention to the artistic merits...
...distaste rather than necessity. An itinerant tutor, salesman, artist's model, he served in the Russian army, saw the German occupation of Poland, weathered the Polish Revolution. Since 1922, when he published his first book of short stories, most of his work has been published in the Jewish Daily Forward, which also sent him to the Soviet Union as correspondent in 1926. Since 1934 Author Singer, his wife and 16-year-old son have lived in Brooklyn...