Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death in 1971, has continued that tradition. Though he is still chairman of Seagram, Edgar Sr. devotes most of his time to the World Jewish Congress, which he has headed since 1980. Among other things, he is credited with prompting much of the investigation that unmasked the Nazi past of former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. In the U.S. he has been an important Democratic Party supporter; he was an early backer of Jimmy Carter as the Georgian began his 1976 presidential...
...night, armed Hutu with lists of professionals and intellectuals would arrive at the stadium, haul out dozens of Tutsi and execute them in a kind of intellectual ethnic cleansing. Last week 21 orphans and 13 Red Cross workers trying to guard them were murdered: in a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the children were picked out of a group of 500 simply because they looked like Tutsi. There were reports that several priests giving refuge to local Tutsi were buried alive. The mayor of the southern town of Butare, who is married to a Tutsi, was offered a Sophie...
...never anti-Semitic and never a member of the Nazi Party...So where does my guilt lie?" These last lines of the film, "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl" leave viewers with a final sense of the notorious German director's elusiveness...
Riefenstahl, witty, athletic and argumentative at age 91, is best known for her "Triumph of the Will," a film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg, and "Olympia," a documentary film of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin...
...most fascinating and disturbing part of the film is when Riefenstahl must face the questions raised by her association with, and work for, the Nazis. For this segment, Muller takes Riefenstahl back to the old Nazi parade grounds outside of Nuremberg...