Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General della Rovere takes a long look at cowardice and heroism in "difficult times." These times are the last days of the German occupation of northern Italy where a bewildered civilian population is plagued by Allied air-raids and Nazi terrorism. Here Rossellini's cameras are most effective. Surveying the common misery they discover it in a simple heroism and solidarity. A brilliant sequence shows original films of an air-raid followed by shots of a resigned populace beginning to dig its way out of the rubble. Suddenly from behind a ruined wall Bardone appears, well-dressed, but detached...
...between 1941 and 1945 that the loyal proletariat fought the Revolution," or, "No, we did not fight internal forces so much as the imperialistic Nazi invaders," he replied to my questions, all the time looking not at me but around me at the secretary who had stationed herself at the door and seemed to be giving him signals of some sort. When I asked him whether there hadn't been forces other than the Partisans fighting the Nazis, he appeared rather nervous and hurried...
...high German civilian and military officers. This shows the error of appraisal that an American march to Berlin would cost 100,000 casualties. Of course, neither Eisenhower nor Bradley can be blamed, because they had to rely on intelligence reports. The miscalculation of the fighting power of the Nazi units when Germany was already completely disintegrated was no less a myth than the fiction stories of the "Alpine Fortress...
Vienna in the 1920s-with its coffeehouse society making a last whipped-cream stand against change, with the Franz Josef heel-clicks just receding and the Nazi jackboots faintly approaching-is both scene and protagonist of Heimito von Doderer's two-volume, half-million word novel The Demons, which was 25 years in the writing and two years in translation. The American edition contains a publisher's list of characters numbering 142, with 31 starred as principals...
Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the Nazis, has written letters to two of Farmer's friends disclosing that the Nazis have agreed to help the Muslims obtain "black and" in return for black storm troopers who will guard Nazi meetings...