Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skeletal glass and steel skyscrapers. Widely reckoned to be one of this century's three most influential architects (with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier), German-born Mies was trained as a stonemason. He headed Germany's revolutionary Bauhaus group of artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech's clean-lined campus, a gaunt set of Chicago apartments, and his career-capper...
...group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi overlords were shocked. After an SS investigation they packed him off to the front "to redeem himself," and there he lost a leg and an arm. After first declaring him unfit for trial, West German authorities changed their minds when Sommer married a blonde nurse in 1956, fathered her child...
...Bavarian Alps on a skiing holiday. They are English and lovers, and each has lost a former love during the war. Both are generous, both are hopeful that the time of Hitler was a decent nation's inexplicable nightmare-but they run into enough of the Nazi mentality to live a nightmare of their own. Author Lessing's tale is too carefully loaded to be fully convincing or fair. But it has enough truth and strength to be a chilling literary experience...
...Young Lions (at the Gary). Marlon Brando is a superb Nazi officer in this tale of World...
...notable as the exiles' books-and as much of a tribute to man's will to survive-are their accounts of their own and their friends' experiences in Red and Nazi jails. In an article in the London Spectator, Journalist Tabori reported some of the strategems they used in order to stay sane...