Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAWNBROKER. Rod Steiger gives a virtuoso performance as an embittered old Jew whose half life in Spanish Harlem is shaped by the memory of Nazi terrors...
Like his other books, The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse, and like the rest of the new generation of German fiction, it deals with the Nazi era. Dog Years is powerful, jumbled, symbol-cluttered, too long, exhausting. It drifts in and out of fantasy, scratches at memories as if they were swords too dangerous to grasp, and says nothing directly. The narrative follows, circles about, sniffs at, is diverted from, and returns to the careers of two friends, boys who were born in 1917 in a fishing village on the Baltic...
Lost Teeth. Amsel's hobby is to make satirical scarecrows. To obtain some Nazi uniforms for his creations, he persuades Matern to join the Storm Troopers. Matern joins and then gets caught up in the group spirit; he perversely leads a gang of troopers to Amsel's house, knocks out all his teeth and leaves him senseless...
...PAWNBROKER. Recalling the terrors of Nazi death camps amid the squalor of Spanish Harlem, Rod Steiger, in the title role, gives one of the year's grimmest movies the extra impact of a powerful performance...
Died. Leopold Figl, 62, Chancellor of Austria from 1945 to 1953, who spent six years in Nazi concentration camps, later founded the conservative People's Party and led a coalition regime until Julius Raab succeeded him, whereupon he became Foreign Minister, and in 1955 with Raab negotiated the end of Allied occupation; of cancer; in Vienna (see THE WORLD...