Word: pogroms
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...students, a perverse, seditious lecture on theories of Nazi justice. A sailor is shot for having attended a workers' mass meeting in Manhattan. The local head of the Gestapo cracks under the strain to his decency, warns the city's Jews on the eve of the pogrom of November 1938. In the closing story a mediocre Nazi writer rediscovers his honesty, gets out of Germany by the skin of his teeth as war breaks, sails with his family for the U. S. on the Athenia...
...paintings have volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...
...Great Commandment (Cathedral Films), as sombre as a pogrom and sometimes as bloodcurdling, tells the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful, youthful John Beal) is leader of the Zealots, a Jewish revolutionary society. He has three problems: i) to defeat the Romans; 2) to win languid Tamar (Marjorie Cooley) who seems a little puzzled by all the excitement; 3) to convince his father, Rabbi Lamech (Maurice Moscovich), that it is better...
...Germany there is a cynical saying that Schacht has managed to doublecross all save two of his intimates: one of the two is Hitler; the other is Jeidels. Schacht gave Jeidels the high sign in time for him to leave Germany with his family before the great pogrom of 1938 began...
Said Novelist Forem of this first big anti-Semitic riot in the New World: "It was a regular pogrom. I could feel it in the air. ... I think a big change has come over Mexico. My personal opinion is that all this was done under German Nazi influence. It was said that Germans were in the mob but I didn't see them...