Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first flush of his unprecedented electoral third-term victory, Christian Democratic Leader Konrad Adenauer drove out to the Benedictine monastery at Maria Laach near Bonn, where he had taken refuge for almost a year during the worst days of being Nazi-blacklisted before the war. In one respect the Chancellor's hour-and-a-half meditation in the monastery gardens was like all his actions of his week of triumph: he kept a discreet silence about his intentions, as is the victor's prerogative. The opposition Socialists, on the other hand, might be expected to hold a noisy...
...occupied Norway the symbol for defiance of Hitler's Nazis was not Winston Churchill's stubby-fingered V for victory, but an H crossed by the figure 7. Painted on walls, tramped out in the snow, scratched on the sides of Nazi troop trains, chalked on Gestapo command cars, perpetually erased, perpetually reappearing, the omnipresent H7 was a perennial reminder to the people of Norway and to their occupiers that the true sovereign of their indomitable spirit was their exiled King Haakon...
...Hills. In 1940, with the German might pouring over his beaches, King Haakon refused to appoint the traitor Quisling to the Norwegian premiership. He fled Oslo to the forbidding North, and, relentlessly pursued by the Nazis, twice narrowly escaped death. His forces held out for longer than those in any other Nazi-invaded country, and during the 62 days of resistance more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance...
Bourvil, an unbacked Paris hackie, supports himself by odd jobs, including meat-running. A stupid and unimaginative fellow, he enlists the help of Gabin in transporting a freshly slaughtered pig through an obstacle course lined with gendarmes, prostitutes, Nazi soldiers, informers and other keen-nosed dogs. Only the Gallic touch could make such a dangerous journey seem so funny and so sad at the same time. The mishaps that befall the pair have a wonderfully impromptu quality, as if Director Claude Autant-Lara, occasionally glancing at the story (by Marcel Ayme) from which the movie is loosely taken, made...
...Then you will be forced to become a boss. See where dishonesty can lead?" Gabin continues to enjoy his larks even after a German patrol catches them in a no-porking zone. But Bourvil, marooned in the smallness of what he is, can only sweat in fear, await the Nazi punishment-and look ahead to a life spent carrying other people's suitcases...