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Mundheim was born into a Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany in 1933, just as Adolph Hitler’s Nazi party was rising to power. In January of 1939, Mundheim’s family managed to escape Germany and immigrate to the United States...
...published Wartime Lies, the partially autobiographical account of his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Poland using forged Catholic papers. And the book met international acclaim...
...Department's original plans for attacking Nazi Germany envisioned a major cross-Channel invasion in mid-1943, with the possibility of a smaller-scale landing at an earlier date if the Soviets were on the point of collapse. That seemed perilously likely. By mid-1942, more than 150 German divisions had overrun the Soviet Union to a depth of 1,000 miles, wreaking mayhem on a scale that John F. Kennedy later compared to "the devastation of this country east of Chicago." The fate of Britain and the U.S. alike hung on the Soviets' survival. "The prize we seek," said...
...that microscopic dot the exact moral equivalent of driving a knife through the heart of an innocent 6-year-old girl? Some stem-cell enthusiasts think that even antiabortion absolutists can support stem-cell research, since it uses surplus embryos that are doomed anyhow. But that logic would justify Nazi experiments on doomed Jews in the concentration camps. If the microscopic dot is a human being with full human rights, the answer is easy: no stem-cell research...
Left-wing documentaries are nothing new. In fact, with the exception of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-rally film Triumph of the Will, it's hard to think of a right-wing documentary. Nor was Moore alone in his obsession with the Republican elite. Among the festival screenings were the documentary Bush's Brain (about adviser Karl Rove) and a fact-based drama, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But Fahrenheit 9/11 had all the hot press. And it more than lived up to its advance...