Word: kr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve guests for dinner. And he needed household goods; the Embassy did not have a set of glassware that matched. Even if he and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen had stagged the leading nightclubs until 3 in the morning with Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu, there was more formal entertaining to be done. The newly arrived corps of U.S. experts and Lend-Leasers made things especially crowded...
...thing might be a feint to mask a new blow at Britain. Sir Stafford Cripps saw no hope for Britain in Russia: this week he said he would not return to Moscow. In Ankara British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen talked for an hour with Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoĝlu, trying to find out what was up. Turkey would be an important item in a Russo-German deal, and Turkey is a gateway to the Middle East and Suez...
...until Britain traitorously declares war on the Boers does the Nazi propaganda begin to make hay. British troops come to the farm of Krüger's pacifistic, English-educated son, Jan (Werner Hinz), molest his wife, drive him into the Boer forces. In a concentration camp his wife and children are starved, whaled with rifle butts by the sadistic British. Dead prisoners lie in open ditches while bored guards cover them with quicklime. The camp commandant lives the life of Riley with a mistress and a puffy bulldog to whom he feeds juicy steaks. Meantime Lord Kitchener announces...
...blind, fugitive Ohm Paul Krüger tells his Swiss nurse that some day a big nation will arise to avenge the Boers for their treatment by that bully, Britain. In Berlin that brings down the house...
Actor Jannings, Germany's No. 1 cinema star, spent 1,500,000 marks producing Ohm Krüger. When it opened recently, he explained the new conception of the Boer hero in the light of history as the Nazis now see it. Said he: "In the most difficult hours of his life Krüger clung always to the theory that no individual and no nation shall deviate from the path of duty by withdrawing from its mission of sacrificing itself for the future...