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Ryan had extensive background in the war crimes field: From 1980 to 1983 he was the Director of the Office of Special Investigation for the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as the chief Nazi war crimes prosecutor for the United States—the first person to hold the position...
...useful information, this show is like a micro-Internet, full of stuff that's fascinating and pointless. Old, quaint erotica, Jack Kerouac's crutches, and an asbestos-bound copy of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's novel about book burning, are among the eccentric treasures. Then there's the anti-Nazi literature hidden in tea bags, above, which demonstrates one of the library's main advantages over the Web: it can prove such things existed. --By Belinda Luscombe
...this fraught year, had to be a film about victims and survivors. For The Pianist's Szpilman (well played by Adrien Brody) and the half-million other Jews sardined into the Ghetto, the issue of individual survival was as capricious as the number of shells left in a Nazi's pistol. Great atrocities follow intimate ones; soon they had to ask whether European Jewry itself could survive. Polanski's view is unsentimental and acute; it focuses on the behavior of besieged people in ever more extreme circumstances. Some reports say that by war's end only 20 Jews were still...
...Would we want to keep a name like Goebbels on a school because he was ‘a man of his time?,” Counter asked, referring to the Nazi propaganda minister...
Superman began life as a kind of populist statement. Created in 1938 by two Jewish colleagues, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he offered justice for the little guy at the tail end of the Depression and upended the Nazi concept of the Ubermensch. "There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption," says DC Comics president Paul Levitz. "Superman was a fulfillment of a pent-up passion for the heroic solution." Batman, a morally ambiguous, revenge-driven crusader, emerged in 1939, at the outset of World War II, as the darker side of the heroic solution...