Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tito struck then, and the world was shocked by the cynical mockery of Stepi-nac's twelve-day trial for collaboration with the Nazi puppet regime during the war. The sentence: 16 years at hard labor...
Made by Mikhail Kalatozov, a middle-aged associate of Eisenstein's, The Cranes Are Flying tells the story of two young students (Tatiana Samoilova and Alexei Batalov) who fall in love just before the Nazi invasion. He rushes off to the army, leaving her a letter of explanation, but the letter is mislaid, and she thinks she has been jilted. When her parents are killed in an air raid, she goes to pieces and lets herself be seduced by a no-good draft-dodger who plays the piano. She spends the rest of the picture in Siberia, nursing wounded...
...Memory comes alive on a day like this," said the old Chancellor, who was himself twice imprisoned by the Nazis. "In recent weeks things have happened in Germany that we most deeply regret. I ask the world to be assured that we will work with all our strength never again to let happen what happened during the Nazi period...
...Jewish leaders, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, thanked the Chancellor for his assurances that young Germans would be taught the true story of the Nazi past, but wryly expressed some concern for the future: "We are not worried about Germany so long as Chancellor Adenauer is alive. But peoples change, and what today is small can be large tomorrow...
...late Bernard Berenson called World War II a "manquake" and calmly retired to his book-lined storm cellar-the 50,000-volume library he had amassed 'at his famed Tuscan villa, / Tatti, near Florence. This took a certain amount of fatalism in wartime Italy, Nazi Germany's ally, since Berenson was born a Jew (he was converted to Roman Catholicism), and his only safety lay in a promise from Mussolini's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, that he would not be molested. The master pundit of Renaissance art, his ailing wife Mary (who died...