Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Enemy Below, with Robert Mitchum on the surface and Curt Jurgens skippering a Nazi submarine at depth...
Special Forces are also stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, on Okinawa and in the Bavarian Alps. There, 26 miles south of Munich, some 300 men occupy a former Nazi SS barracks, live a tough outdoor life in which they become expert at skiing, mountain climbing, parachuting and skindiving. In twelve-man teams, they visit nearby friendly nations to learn the terrain, practice landings from submarines along the coast of Norway and mountain tactics in Greece...
Henze's early fascination with twelve-tone technique marked him a decadent in Nazi Germany, and his operatic works since then have split his audience into two camps-the admiring and the appalled-with the critics generally on his side. He has a talent for finding high inspiration in avant-garde literature (Allen Ginsberg's Howl inspired his recent Antifone per Orchestra) and for attracting notable collaborators. W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman (the librettists of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress) wrote the libretto for his Elegy for Young Lovers, and the collaboration remains among...
...executioner, Adolf Eichmann was a flop. He got queasy at the sight of corpses, and when a fellow Nazi invited him to peep at some Jews being gassed in a truck, he ran away in terror. "If today I am shown a gaping wound," he declared, "I can't possibly look at it. I am that type of person...
Making films about World War II is like concocting compounds in organic chemistry. There are roughly half a dozen entertaining ways to kill a soldier, nine or ten basic acts of Nazi inhumanity, perhaps fifteen kinds of heroism in combat, and at least a hundred bits of cliched battle dialogue. To put together a new movie, the writer and director have only to choose several ingredients from each grouping. Allowing for duplications, countless combinations can be made. Very few are worth the trouble...