Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Elsie, who is 71 years old, and Henry, who is 80 years old, came to the United States in 1938 with two young sons and $4. Speaking no English they both worked to save to buy their own restaurant...
Some critics complain that the series offers no analysis and so does not give the subject matter a proper structure and perspective. But when tackling difficult moral questions on film (Stanley Kramer's Judgement at Nuremberg) letting the audience draw their own conclusions may just be the best device...
Bayreuth, located 41 miles northeast of Nuremberg in the gently rolling Bavarian countryside, is a rumor mill that makes Washington, D.C., look like a Trappist monastery. Long before the curtain went up on Das Rheingold, which opens the cycle, the cafés were humming with musical gossip: Tenor Reiner Goldberg, Solti's original choice to sing the difficult role of Siegfried, had been fired (true). Soprano Hildegard Behrens, the Brünnhilde, had quit (false). The Hall production, with sets by Designer William Dudley, would be the biggest fiasco since ... well, since 1976, when Patrice Chéreau...
...McCloy alone who decided to commute the sentences of many of the most abominable Nazi war criminals. Contrary to the implications in the Crimson majority editorial, it was McCloy's initiative that led to the establishment of an American review board which significantly reduced sentences war criminals received at Nuremberg. He did much more than simply follow their instructions...
Calling the commuting the issue for which McCloy was "most culpable." Brinkley explains that the onset of the Cold War put pressure on members of the Western alliance to normalize retions with Germany as soon as possible. The review of the Nuremberg sentences was viewed by many observers as a symbol of the easing of the postwar occupation, he adds...