Word: panzers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grasping Hand. Eichmann's first contribution was the organization of special SS Einsatzgruppen, who followed the Panzer columns as they rolled deep into the Soviet Union and machine-gunned all Jews they could lay hands on. The SS method for distinguishing between Jew and Gentile was quite simple: any Russian who "looked Jewish" was summarily shot...
Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing...
...October 1 the Panzer divisions rolled into the Czech Sudation land. Anxious to see for himself a continent on the brink of war, Kennedy received permission to spend the Spring term in Europe. Staying at American embassies, he chatted with politicians and citizens in Poland, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, the Balkans, Berlin, and Paris...