Word: swastika
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committed suicide in Berlin, U.S. Army Private Wil bert Massman entered Munich with the 179th Infantry Regiment and settled into a small apartment on the city's east side, using it as an office. While rummaging through a bookcase, Massman stumbled on a red leather album embossed with a swastika. Flipping through the album, he saw 72 photos of World War I scenes, four of which showed a man who appeared to be the young Adolf Hitler. Other items, bearing the monogram A.H., convinced Massman that the apartment had once been Hitler's. Massman sent the memorabilia home to Chicago...
...anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most modern cartooning...
Said Rosensalt, "While he refuses to go to pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust on the site of a Nazi concentration camp, he now intends to go to a German military cemetery and lay a wreath on a grave of German soldiers who wore a swastika on their uniform and who died preventine Allied forces from liberating the death camps...
Boston City Councilor David Scondras '68, who participated in the sit-in compared the symbolic importance of the Krugerrand with that of the Nazi Swastika, adding. "You can't expect to finance the of concentration camps and expect that there with be no day of reckoning...
...rousing renditions of music hall and dixieland-flavored tunes. And while Kevin Jennings' direction is clearly competant and clear, a freshness and originality is missing. The direction is not highly memorable, visually striking or evocative because, for one thing, Jennings relies too heavily on the stark symbol of the swastika to shock and draw forth all of our powerful emotions and connections. It is not enough...