Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Universal sent him to Berlin to arrange for the exhibition of the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front. The film was banned when the Nazis bombed the theater opening night, but Spiegel ran a series of private screenings for Reichstag members and Nazi Leaders Hitler, Goebbels, and Goring. Over the Nazis' protests, the ban was lifted. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Spiegel thought it best to flee to Vienna. Six years later, he returned to Hollywood with an idea for casting a picture with nothing but stars. Tales of Manhattan had nothing...
...catalogue of the "degenerate art'' show put on by Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels in 1937 has, with predictable irony, become a handy checklist of great modern German artists-Lehmbruck, Barlach, Kirchner, Grosz, Nolde, Ernst. But one artist, Otto Dix, who was considered so crass that no fewer than 16 of his works were hung in the show, is only now getting recognition commensurate with that backhanded accolade. Berlin and Darmstadt have seen comprehensive Dix exhibitions in the past couple of years, and his current show in Stuttgart is drawing praise from critics all over Germany...
There was always a considerable difference between the two dictatorial regimes. At its worst, Italian Fascism was not so ruthless or fanatical as Nazism. The Italians largely ignored Nazi demands that they persecute the Jews. When a wave of strikes broke out in 1943, Mussolini hesitated, eventually arrested some of the strikers and drafted others into the army. Hitler exploded: "That it is possible for people to stop work firmly in eight factories is for me unthinkable. I am convinced that if one shows the slightest weakness in such a case, one is lost...
Anthony Graham-White adapted a Marek Hlasko story full of characters and atmosphere. Agnieszka, a young woman relatively untouched by the war, passes an existence surrounded by hulks who are psychologically still under the Nazi rule. Her parents are aging and broken; her lover lost all but his physical drives in the concentration camps. One of her brothers still tries to live by Darwinian prison morality, while the other drowns his self-pity in vodka. Throughout their actions parade chorus-like groups of foul-mouthed and drunken toughs, the spawn of occupation...
Died. General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, 77, commander of Britain's beleaguered 5th Division in France in 1940. whose gallant attack with his badly outnumbered forces at Arras so alarmed the German High Command that it delayed the Nazi advance, thereby giving the British 24 extra hours during the retreat to Dunkirk; of a heart attack; in Newbury, Berkshire...