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Engel's trial, expected to begin in May or June, comes at a time when new attention has been focused on the war years by a book, Crab Walk, by Nobel-prizewinning author Günter Grass. The work deals with the 1945 sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff by a Russian submarine as it steamed from Danzig (present day Gdansk, Poland) back to Germany. More than 7,000 passengers, mostly German women and children, drowned in the incident. The book, which tops best-seller lists in Germany, has sold more than 300,000 copies and has inspired front-page...
...hate it, like the Dadaists, but he poked fun at it, as in The Great Emperor Rides to War, 1920, an absurd military apparition that seems to be wearing a mosque on its head. Only afterward do you realize how like the spiked helmet of the recently defeated Kaiser Wilhelm this piece of costume...
...film is in fact Farrell, a relative unknown from Ireland who gives an impressive performance as the son of a senator who is shielded from the front line but not from confrontational situations in the POW camp. Farrell, as well as Marcel Iures (who plays German Col. Wilhelm Visser) and Terrence Howard (who plays Hart’s client), all upstage Willis’ colonel. In fairness to Willis, however, his character is much less dynamic than his German counterpart or his subordinates. While these other three characters each get the chance to glorify their position with a speech, Willis...
...Wilhelm Doppelganger has been ski-jumping all his life. The 27-year old Austrian, the son of a world champion speed skater and an Olympic gold-medal-winning luger, grew up in the ski-resort town of Blaadfrey. At age four he was sent to private school in the Alps and then to the Olympic Training Center in Vienna. By 15 he was traveling the Grand Prix World Circuit...
...term anti-Semitism was coined by the German Wilhelm Marr in the 1880s and it was meant to distinguish itself from anti-Judaism. Whereas anti-Judaism was seen to be based on religious hatred, the new “enlightened,” “scientific” anti-Semitism was a hatred of the Jews as a race. The old anti-Judaism was outdated; anti-Semitism allowed its adherents to hate the Jews in a modern way. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, anti-Semitism is “theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews...