Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes reminiscent both of Japanese internment in California during World War II and of the Nazi's seizure of Jews during the Holocaust, Devereaux rounds up all Arab men in Brooklyn and turns Yankee Stadium into a concentration camp. Eventually, the conflict between the public's civil rights and the nation's security comes to a head, with Hubbard and Kraft working against Devereaux to find the terrorist threat...
While it is true that Nazi propagandists appropriated Germanic and Norse mythology in their glorification of German nationalism, it is untrue that "Scandinavian literature was influenced by the Nazis." In reality, it was the Nazis who attempted to assimilate this Scandinavian literature in an effort to further strengthen their own 'Aryan' identity. MARCELLINE BLOCK '01 ELIZABETH A. CHIAPPA '01 SARAH B. SCHAUSS '01 JENNIFER K. WESTHAGEN...
This is life in a Nazi concentration camp as presented by Roberto Benigni, the star, director and co-writer (with Vincenzo Cerami) of Life Is Beautiful, which has been winning awards and high popularity in Europe. Benigni won't--can't--have it any other way, for even a hint of the truth about the Holocaust would crush his comedy and reduce to absurdity his "fable" about a man named Guido making a sort of hide-and-seek game out of camp life, diverting his four-year-old son (Giorgio Cantarini) from its harshness and encouraging...
Marital bliss is interrupted a few years later when Guido, Dora and their son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini, a wonderfully precocious little actor) are taken to a Nazi concentration camp three months before the end of the war. One would expect the film to sober up at this point, and it does, but it never sacrifices the lyricism and humor which are integral to both the story and to Guido's personality. There are a few truly harrowing scenes, but the violence and politics are largely external to the story--Benigni assumes that we know all that already, and the film...
...Boston Public Library does it again. Today, the "Making a Difference" film series will be showcasing Weapons of the Spirits, the inspirational and true story about a French village that sheltered Jews from the Nazi terror during World War II. 6 p.m., Rabb Lecture Hall, Central Branch Library, Copley Square. 536-5400. FREE...