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...Adolf Hitler, who had long admired her work on the screen. He...promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress in which she directed 800,000 men. When Herr Hitler's crony, Air Minister Goring, married Cinemactress Riefenstahl's crony, Actress Emmy Sonnemann, last year, Hitler was best man. That Realmleader Hitler, a confirmed celibate, has any such intentions concerning Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl no one suspects for a moment, but that he holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements and her character...
...Nurnberg's dock smiled more than they had for years. But most of them knew they would not live to see another spring in Germany. Some faced it with bravado--like ex-Fighter Pilot Hermann Goring, who gestured and postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it--like Colonel General Alfred Jodl, who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell...Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness...
...Composer Udo Zimmermann and an opera by Siegfried Matthus, so perhaps Dresden's reputation as a home for new music will be at least partially restored. And Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's grandson who maintains the family shrine at Bayreuth, will direct a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in December. But what the Semper needs is what the rest of Eastern Europe's houses need: the free exchange of singers, designers and directors with the West so that the art form can flower fully. The current political chill between the superpowers may not allow it, but the higher...
Courts of Terror is the result of a human rights project that failed. Led by Telford Taylor, who was U.S. prosecutor at the Nurnberg War Crimes Trials of 1946, a group of distinguished American lawyers gained power of attorney for the relatives in Israel of 19 Jews serving sentences at various labor camps within the Soviet Union. The hope was that the Soviets would respect their own laws enough for cogent arguments by foreign colleagues to induce them to reconsider the harsh sentences meted out to the 19 Jewish prisoners. The U.S. lawyers first studied Soviet law. For months they...
...work, then abandoning the family; mother turning to alcohol; two brothers often in prison or reform school; one uncle a convict; life, with no privacy, in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., and in a grandmother's house in Alton, Ill.; postwar service as an Army MP in Nurnberg, Germany; a discharge for a "lack of adaptability" to military service...