Word: nazis
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Though not practicing my religion, I could never forget that 13 members of my family had died in Nazi concentration camps. I had no stomach for encouraging another Holocaust by well-intentioned policies that might get out of control. Yet, like Nixon, I had to subordinate my emotional preferences to my perception of the national interest. Given the historical suspicions toward my religion, I had a special obligation to do so. Occasionally it proved painful. But Israel's security could be preserved only by anchoring it to a strategic interest of the U.S., not to the sentiments of individuals...
...Committee to Stop G. Gordon Liddy, the Brandeis student-faculty coalition that organized the demonstration, distributed leaflets accusing Liddy of espousing Nazi authoritarian ideology. Liddy's daughter, Sally Alexandra, who attended the lecture, called this charge untrue but added. "He liked the idea of the way [the Nazis] attained their power...
F.D.R.'s humane immigration policy allowed my German-Jewish grandfather and his family to escape the Nazi Holocaust. Roosevelt's portrait held a special place in my grandfather's home...
...German cinema for more than a decade, finally went into the black last year. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders have earned reputations as world-class film makers. These and other directors who restored German film to artistic prominence after 40 years in the Nazi and postwar wilderness are winning dates in U.S. art theaters traditionally receptive only to French movies. Since October, Frank Ripploh's Taxi zum Klo, a sweet-souled, hard-core slice of homosexual life made for $50,000, has tallied $500,000 in only four U.S. cities...
...about her age watched a carnival's grotesque strong man break his chains-and another beast roamed wild and free through Germany. The boy, David Singer (Mario Fischel), is Jewish, and the film David is another small step in Germany's reluctant search for understanding of the Nazi period. Families like David's were forced into public humiliation, then into hiding, then-if they were lucky-out of the Reich. Director Peter Lilienthal adds little to the Holocaust "literature," content to play family ironies against social enormities in a genre that is by now as codified...