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...hrle, who made his fortune selling weapons to Germany during WWII, studied art history and was 30 years old when he began amassing his collection, but his holdings have proven controversial. At least 13 of the artworks he owned at war's end were included on British specialist Douglas Cooper's "looted art list," which was used to recover pieces stolen from Jews by the Nazis. A five-year study undertaken by the Swiss government determined in 2001 that Bührle, who died in 1956, had acquired "flight art" ? works smuggled out of Axis-controlled areas and sold...
...Sarkozy's acnowledgement of the often brutal French colonialization - and the chilling of relations between Paris and Algiers it had provoked in the past - it's unlikely his comments will fully satisfy Algerian critics like President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who once likened French occupation of his country to Germany's WWII occupation of France. But Sarkozy's decision to make the trip despite the ambient hostility toward him - and his surprising reversal in discussing France's colonial past - was an indication he was ready to say and do some important things while in Algeria...
...addition to the generosity of student patrons, The Crimson attributed the rise of drama at Harvard, in part, to the post-WWII influx of eager thespians, whose numbers had been depleted during the war. The HDC’s creation of a training program preparing novice actors to tread the Harvard boards also contributed to the increasing popularity of Harvard dramatics...
...entirely worthless. Still, he puts too much of “Showgirls” (his 1995 softcore porn hit) into “Black Book,” and the sex doesn’t quite fit amidst the violence and squalor of the Dutch resistance in WWII. Call me a prude, but when a pretty Jewish girl is steeling herself to seduce an SS commandant, I don’t need to see her give a quickie to a fellow resistance member after waxing her pubic hair. The private parts Verhoeven willingly parades around onscreen belong to Carice...
...TIME: Black Book takes you back almost to your beginnings in film. How do you compare it with Soldier of Orange, which is also about the Dutch during WWII...