Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What distinguishes Keilson from other writers on the Nazi era is his uncanny understanding of the persecutor as well as the persecuted. He realizes that the terrorist is vulnerable as well as brutal. He tenderly describes a nocturnal raid on a minority cemetery by young party recruits : their initiation into Nazi-type brutality. Scared and disgusted, one starts to stutter, another has an attack of diarrhea, a third gouges his eye. An orphan, reminded of his parents' grave, tears up the cemetery more ferociously than anyone else, "as though he wanted to scratch the buried bones...
Died. General Dusan Simovic, 80, iron-willed Yugoslav patriot who led a valiant 1941 coup d'etat that overturned the pro-Nazi regency of Prince Paul for 17 brief days just before Hitler invaded, later headed Yugoslavia's wartime exiled government in London; in seclusion in Belgrade...
...Pigeon That Took Rome lays a heap of small eggs that scramble surprisingly well. Coo-coo comedy is intended, and Pigeon gets off to a flying start as two G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
...even while trying to get its hands on Prize Spy Robert Soblen. last week got a booby prize. Hustled out of Great Britain was George Lincoln Rockwell, self-styled Führer of the Nazi Party in the U.S. Rockwell, 44, leads a band of a few hundred American Nazis, agitates for deporting all Negroes to Africa, liquidating the Jews, and hanging all "traitors," e.g., Eisenhower, Truman, Chief Justice Warren. He had gone to Britain to be guest star at a convention of British Nazis. But when his presence was discovered, Scotland Yard picked him up and, with very little...
...boys" thrown up by Germany's postwar economic miracle, none rose faster or higher than jowly Willy Schlieker (rhymes with bleaker), 48. Born in the slums of Hamburg, Schlieker started out as a clerk in a law court, at 28 was chief of wartime steel allocation for the Nazi government. After the war, capitalizing on his Ruhr contacts, Schlieker built up a steelmaking, shipbuilding and trading empire that last year grossed $200 million. Last week, two months after he had been featured on TV as one of Germany's richest men, the bottom fell out for Willy Schlieker...