Word: nazis
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Using his Nazi connections and financed by investments from Jews, Schindler establishes a factory that produces pots and pans. He exploits Jewish labor because under Nazi laws they earn less than Poles. His accountant is Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) and with his help, Schindler's factory becomes a success...
Eventually, the Jews are moved from the Krakow Ghetto to a Nazi labor camp run by Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes). Goeth is a singularly unsettling figure, educated and refined but at the same time brutal, merciless and animalistic. Looking down into the camp from his villa, Goeth casually shoots anyone who crosses his line of sight. He is in love with his Jewish maid (Embeth Davidtz), but he is ashamed of it, and so he beats...
Zhirinovsky's friendship with the Nazi veteran became all the more incongruous when Israeli officials disclosed that in 1983 the Russian politician sought and was granted permission to immigrate to Israel -- an invitation that normally requires evidence of a Jewish background. The disclosure created further puzzlement over his widely publicized anti-Semitic remarks and fanned long-standing rumors that his father was Jewish (Zhirinovsky has responded only by saying his mother is Russian, his father "a lawyer...
When Christoph von Dohnanyi's appointment as the sixth music director in the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was announced in 1982, the reaction was nearly unanimous: Christoph von Who? The Berlin-born Dohnanyi, 53 -- grandson of the urbane composer Erno Dohnanyi, nephew of the martyred Nazi-era theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and husband of the glamorous dramatic soprano Anja Silja -- was nearly unknown in the U.S. Among the few who were aware of him, he was regarded as a workmanlike German kapellmeister with a suspicious fondness for 20th century music, and certainly an odd choice to command an orchestra whose...
Freud, grandson of Sigmund, was born in Germany in 1922. He grew up in Berlin, but his parents brought him to London in 1939, barely in front of the rising wave of Nazi persecution. In England his schooling was irregular and "progressive" -- even today his handwriting is that of a 10-year-old -- and although he had some art training, he was basically self-taught. Freud's German origins have suggested to some critics that early works like Girl with Roses, 1947-48, a portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, were done under...