Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Premise: An annual event, the freshman play this year is C.P. Taylor's tale of how an ordinary, "good" intellectual German man, John Halder, lets himself be turned into a Nazi. With professional guest director Daniel Gidron (Women on Top, Mere Mortals) and Guest Equity Actor Diego Arciniegas...
...What to look for: Certainly, the intensity of the questions the play asks. As Gidron says, the play is all about "responsibilit,", and the way that we "often fool ourselves about our role as the Everyman." And despite the play being set in '30s Nazi Germany, the play has "as many implications for today as back then." Look out too for the riotous German tunes, which lend a tone of absurdity to the dream-world of John Halder...
...trial, because letting him go free would have caused an international scandal," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The Sakic sentence came in the context of repeated attempts by Croatia?s current president, Franjo Tudjman, to resurrect the reputation of Croatia?s wartime pro-Nazi Ustashe regime, which enthusiastically rounded up Serbs, Jews and Gypsies and ran its own concentration camps during the German occupation of the Balkans ? and serious criticism of Tudjman's own human rights record...
...since the Anschluss has Austria seen a resurgence of Nazi ideas so close to the mainstream. The far-right Freedom party, whose leader, Joerg Haider, has expressed views sympathetic to the Third Reich, became the second largest party in Austria after Sunday?s election, finishing only 6 percent behind the ruling Social Democrats and ahead of its coalition partner, the conservative People?s party. The mystery is how an extremist party has managed to break into the mainstream at a time of prosperity and relative social calm. "Austrians are not angry, they?re bored," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter...
...book Pat Buchanan tells us what he would have done if he'd been President when Nazi Germany was waging war on England and France: Nothing. Adolf Hitler, he insists, was somewhat misunderstood. The Nazis only wanted to move east into Russia and Eastern Europe--which posed no threat to U.S. interests--until we got them all riled up. The Holocaust? A bad thing, certainly, but not the kind of problem that should drag a nation into...