Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flora Robson carries the message of the picture as she gradually comes to realize that Naziism is not "in the blood" of Frieda, the fraulein whom her nephew married to repay for helping him escape from a German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...
...last month all but one of the 16 were still either in prison or had begun working for the Communists. That one, Kazimierz Baginski, still struggled for democracy in Warsaw as press officer in Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...
...Austria, but mainly, he says, tried to keep out of sight: "I just appeared, then disappeared." The Germans finally put him in uniform-he spent a year swabbing hospital floors in Italy. When he saw a chance, he fled, and surrendered to the U.S. Army. After three months in prison camp, he was released. He feels he has lost time to make up, and a good many things yet to say in his character dancing. Says Kreutzberg: "I am a very sad person, a very funny person, and a very silly person. And they all want to speak...
...spoken, or whispered by men & women in time of need. The words were sung while the Titanic was sinking and on the beaches of Dunkirk. In World War I, Nurse Edith Cavell repeated the hymn as she faced the firing squad. It has often been heard in prison camps, and it has sounded faintly through the wreckage of caved-in mines...
Died. Sir Alexander Paterson, 62, Britain's kindly Commissioner of Prisons for 25 years before his retirement last January, a leader in modern prison reform; in London...