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Fuller's boys manage to turn up everywhere that's anywhere in the war--we're almost surprised that they don't show up on the outskirts of Hiroshima in August, 1945--but a sequence inside a Nazi concentration camp is certainly not a Hollywood war movie cliche. And while Fuller's treatment of the episode is painfully simplistic, it is also simply painful. Hamill discovering a room of ovens filled with human skeletons, Marvin silently baring his heart to a little boy whom he has just liberated--these are moments that we have seen in other films; but Fuller...
Charged with a pro-Nazi past, he gives up U.S. citizenship
Behind the dry legal charge stood a far more bloodcurdling allegation: that this bespectacled man of God was once Viorel Trifa, head of a pro-Nazi youth organization in Bucharest. Witnesses accuse him of delivering an anti-Semitic speech in January 1941 (sample: "A group of Jews and Jew-lovers are ruling everything") that helped to incite rioting during which hundreds-perhaps thousands-of Jews were slain. (The official report listed 236 dead, half of them Gentiles...
Dedicated Nazi-hunters in the U.S. consider Trifa's court action a tacit admission of guilt not only on the technical charge but on all the rest, since all their accusations would have been aired during a long trial. But Valerian issued a prepared statement that his decision "is in no way to be considered an admission of the Government allegations." His lawyer, George E. Woods, a former U.S. Attorney in Detroit, denies that the 66-year-old archbishop caved in before a strong prosecution case. Valerian, he says, was ailing and simply tired of the legal fight that...
Largely through his efforts, the U.S. Government eventually reopened the file on Trifa. In 1975 it accused him of failing to disclose in his naturalization questionnaire that he had been a member of the dreaded pro-Nazi Iron Guard and that he had incited persecution of Jews...