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Ever since the director hit it big with Jaws, people have been telling him to grow up. They want him to tackle more personal themes, to address adult subject matter, to please stop making Steven Spielberg movies. Perhaps Schindler's List, the Nazi-era drama he has already completed shooting for Christmas release, will satisfy those who want Spielberg to enter an auteur rehab clinic...
...first big efforts was the "blue-square" campaign the following year. While the right-wing groups said their blue squares were meant to advocate "family values," they were widely interpreted as a strong antigay statement. Homosexuals in Nazi Germany were forced to wear pink triangles as identifying badges and the symbol has since been reclaimed by gay rights activists...
...former Nazi who Ryan prosecuted, a Cleveland autoworker named John Demjanjuk, turned out to be the infamous Ivan the Terrible, a guard at the death camp in Treblinka, Poland...
...interviewing survivors and procuring evidence that included an identification card from Trawniki, where the Nazi SS trained death camp guards, Ryan identified Demjanjuk as Ivan. He was sure he had the right man. Perhaps too sure. "We had eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," Ryan wrote in his 1984 book, Quiet Neighbors. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...
...late 1991, though, more than two dozen statements from other Nazi death camp guards were released by the Soviet Union. In the statements, the guards, who were tried and executed by the Soviets between 1944 and 1961, say Ivan the Terrible was named Ivan Marcenko...