Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unhappily, he sold too well-and he knew too well what the public would buy. When he accepted an invitation to lecture in Germany during the Nazi occupation of France, his personal stature plummeted along with his stature as an artist. Cynical, bitter, and physically gross, he withdrew to his country mansion to pursue his favorite hobbies: speeding in his Bugatti sports car and gorging himself on food. His wife left him, and when he made headlines in 1954 after being hit by a car, many art lovers thought he was already dead. Two months later...
...Israeli judges returned to the courtroom in which, for four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau (like his two colleagues a refugee from Nazi Germany) ordered Eichmann to attention in his glass, bulletproof cage, and bluntly told the accused: "The court finds you guilty...
Block of Ice. For the next 17 hours, taking turns reading their 100,000-word opinion, which has been four months in the writing, the judges explained why. Eichmann was found guilty on all 15 counts (crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, war crimes, and membership in Nazi organizations) because, far from being "a puppet in the hands of others, he was among those who pulled the strings . . . This block of ice . . . this block of marble . . . closed his ears to the voice of his conscience, as was demanded of him by the regime to which he was wholeheartedly...
...whole people." The prosecution at the 1946 Nuremberg trials kept Burke's dictum carefully in mind, but such scruples do not inhibit Producer-Director Stanley Kramer (On the Beach) and Scriptwriter Abby Mann, who also wrote the 1959 television play on which this movie is based. Ostensibly, four Nazi judges are on trial. Actually, by vigorous and frequent implication, the German people are on trial, and in a specious process that rivals in travesty the show trials conducted by the Nazis, they are found guilty...
...which he reminds the court (and the world) that in varying degrees the Soviet Union, the United States, the Vatican and even Winston Churchill (who as late as 1937 praised Hitler's "courage, perseverance and vital force'') must share with the German people the blame for Nazi times and crimes. At another point Schell makes a withering deprecation of the victor's right to judge the vanquished. "Is Hiroshima," he wonders, "the superior morality?" And there are several scenes of punishing mockery in which U.S. authorities, worried by Russian aggressiveness and anxious to win the support...