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...Nazi-eye view of what the unspeakable British have been up to all these years. With noisy and immense satisfaction they saw beefy, aging Emil Jannings play Stephanus Johannes Paulus Krüger, South Africa's famed Boer statesman, in Tobis Film's production Ohm Krüger. This Nazi rewrite of the Boer War for home consumption is pure propaganda-reminiscent of The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, and other thrillers tossed off during World War I to raise the U.S.'s blood to battle heat against the unspeakable Germans...
...Ohm Krüger jerks along with the customary lack of continuity of the German film. Its Nazi-drawn characters are either snow-white or jet-black. Krüger is a simple, modest, wise Boer elder statesman. Cecil Rhodes (Ferdinand Marian) is a rich, conniving Englishman who behaves like a sinister city slicker out of a Class B Western. His one thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister...
...blind, fugitive Ohm Paul Krüger tells his Swiss nurse that some day a big nation will arise to avenge the Boers for their treatment by that bully, Britain. In Berlin that brings down the house...
...TIME'S intention was not to criticize the frequent lower-case spelling of Diesel but to spotlight the fact that the name of the engine had eclipsed the name of the man. Some other scientific words (besides watt and ampere) from the names of great pioneers: ohm, coulomb, gauss, henry, maxwell, gilbert, volt (from Volta), galvanize (from Galvani...
Books are displayed containing the first publication of such famous discoveries as Ohm's law in 1827, Oersted's finding of the relation between electricity and magnetism in 1820, Franklin's inventions and experiments in 1751, Coulombe's discoveries leading to the law of electrical force between bodies in 1785, Gray's discovery of the phenomenon of electric conduction in 1729, Faraday's announcement in 1831 of his experiments in electric induction underlying modern electric motors and many other devices, and the classic work in 1873 of James Maxwell on his theory of a dielectric medium...