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Died. Wladyslaw Theodor Benda, 75, Polish-born magazine illustrator and maskmaker; of a heart ailment; in Newark...
...siege of Stalingrad is not only interesting tactically, but many historians and most of the captured German generals maintain that it was the actual turning point of the war. Theodor Plievier, a German left-wing writer who made his reputation in the 1920's with violent attacks on militarism and imperialism, wrote "Stalingrad" during the war, presumably in Russia and with Soviet blessing. The book was published in Berlin shortly after the end of the war, and has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely...
...Russian captivity, who became opposed to Nazism and were carefully trained to form a pro-Russian puppet administration in Germany. Today Von Paulus is said to be commanding an army of pro-Communist German veterans--a ghost army somewhere in eastern Europe, ready to pounce when the time comes. Theodor Plievier himself came to Germany in the wake of the Russians, and the publication of "Stalingrad" was encouraged by their military government. However, he must have had a change of heart. In the fall of 1947 he came secretly across the border into the American Zone, where he remains today...
STALINGRAD (357 pp.)-Theodor Plievier-Applefon-Century-Crofts...
Germany's Theodor Plievier was one of that small, distinguished fraternity (including Arnold Zweig, Henri Barbusse, Remain Holland) who, after World War I, deemed it their duty to blow the gaff on military imperialism so thoroughly that a similar carnage could never come again. Plievier's main contribution was The Kaiser's Coolies, and after writing it, he fled into exile. Now, with an even more fearful war come & gone, 60-year-old Theodor Plievier has resumed his old theme song...