Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember the movieSwing Kids?That jazzy two hour romp about two best friends growing up in Germany who just want to have a good time despite the Nazi occupation? Well, have I got a gem for you. Just take the boyish athletic body of Robert Sean Leonard and replace it with the beerstein physique of a well-fed middle-aged man. Exchange the faceless Gestapo brutes for a surprisingly mild-mannered Herr General. Toss The Duke's sassy “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing" in favor of "Veronica, The Girl...
...remembered at all in the years to come, it will be for the fact that it is German-made. It is not often that American audiences get a view of Germany society in the '30s that is multifaceted. Vilsmaier, while acknowledging the horrors and injustices of the Nazi Party, is too thoughtful (or perhaps just too consciously a German citizen) to categorize the regime as universally and blatantly evil. The Party is seen at one point giving The Harmonists special permission to continue their performances despite the recent constrictions. The one riot scene, in which Nazi soldiers begin to chant...
Pryor estimated in his letter that he would be gone 30 to 60 days with the IRC, an organization created in 1933 to assist victims who were fleeing from Nazi Germany. The group has been in the Balkans since 1991, according to Edward P. Bligh, vice president of communications...
...break-up of the Soviet Union is viewed by Fritz as a major factor in increased migration and emigration. Fritz argues that the "forced collectivization of the '20s, the ideological purges of the '30s and the ethnic shuffling of perceived Nazi sympathizers during the '40s "caused much displacement and conflict in terms of people of different ethnicities and nationalities thrown together haphazardly. For example, in describing the independence movement in Chechnya, Fritz tells of the conflicts between Chechens, Russians and the Ingush who wanted to unite with North Ossetia, who in turn wanted to unite with South Ossetia which...
BORN April 20, 1889, in Braunau, Austria 1933 Becomes Nazi dictator of Germany, proposes "Final Solution" to "the Jewish problem" 1939 Starts World War II 1945 Kills himself...