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...Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir by Leni Riefenstahl. At 91, the former actress and filmmaker has a lot to remember. Her Late Romantic style won raves from Hitler and invitations to his mountain lair. She glorified the New Order with striking films about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and the 1936 Olympic Games. Whether one regards her as indomitable or abominable, Riefenstahl has written a vivid memoir of intimacies in an amoral time...
Almost immediately, in the weekend production of “The White Rose,” lights and sirens rip the audience from its seats and plunge it into the tense, electric atmosphere of 1942 Nazi Germany...
...White Rose” opens in Nazi Germany, as brother and sister Sophie (played by Zoe K. Kawaller ’09) and Hans Scholl (Benjamin Curley) launch Resistance flyers from a University of Munich balcony. But the siblings can take no time to admire their papers as they float into the hands of curious students passing by, because they are immediately caught by the Gestapo...
...Genocide Avenger Known as the Nazi hunter who pursued war criminals for more than 50 years, Simon Wiesenthal [MILESTONES, Oct. 3] helped with the arrest of 1,000 people charged with killing Jews. Wiesenthal, who was himself imprisoned in several concentration camps, became the conscience of the Holocaust, making certain that the atrocities of World War II were not forgotten. On March 31, 1967, TIME wrote about Wiesenthal's memoir The Murderers Among Us. Here is an excerpt from the review that touches on the fate of the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank...
...what fires up Schweitzer and a growing number of industrialists is an 80 year-old chemical trick that actually allows coal to run cars. The process, in which coal is converted into synthetic gasoline or diesel, was first developed by two German scientists in 1928, allowing Nazi Germany to produce more than 124,000 barrels a day in 1944, the last full year of World War II. Sasol, a South African firm, has the only existing large-scale plants, and operates in 20 countries. In the U.S. advocates have suggested for decades that "coal-to-liquid" production...