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...since the Nazi Holocaust, the play has been a source of controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared...
Defending his choice at a Lowell House dinner in late February, Bok said he would appoint a Nazi to an academic position at Harvard if he were qualified...
...film The Shop on Main Street (1965); in New York City. Born to actor parents who had their own company in Warsaw, Kaminska made her stage debut at four, began directing at 17, and, with her first husband, Zygmund Turkow, founded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater. She fled the Nazi invasion in 1939, but returned after the war to reorganize her theater. With Polish government support, her troupe gained international renown, but officially inspired "anti-Zionist" attacks following the 1967 Middle East war forced her to emigrate to the U.S. She remained active on the stage and in films...
Finally, Fairfield cited a third "probable case" in which the FBI "again definitely violated its own code of ethics" by using scare tactics. Furniss told Fairfield that late one night "an eminently respectable" Yale faculty member, "a one-time refugee from Nazi Germany," received a mysterious phone call...
...kill, S.A.S. members have thrived on the unit's mystique ever since it was founded in the Libyan desert in 1942. The goal then was to penetrate and operate behind enemy lines in North Africa. Moving swiftly and with seemingly phantom-like invisibility, the S.A.S. destroyed hundreds of Nazi planes on their own airstrips, freed countless Allied prisoners and blew up scores of Axis ammunition dumps. The commandos were also sent on missions to assassinate leading Axis generals. One of the unit's few known failures involved an attempt to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the top German...