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In view of the spread of radical doctrine in our universities, the new photoplay at the Rivoli Theatre issues a symbolic warning to pacifist and liberal student organizations. If they persist in their unAmerican activities, Red Salute tells them, not only will Miss Barbara Stanwyck deny them her allegorical caresses but Mr. Robert Young will punch their noses. It is one of the weirdest exhibits to come out of Hollywood since that wartime masterpiece, The Beast of Berlin. With the subtlety of a steamroller and the satirical finesse of a lynch mob the film goes in for some of the most embarrassing chauvinism of the decade.
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Waiting to be translated https://archive.org/download/zensiert-vor-1945
Largely unknown in the English-speaking world: In the extremely cold winter of 1946/47, the German people suffered from supply shortages to which hundreds of thousands (if not Millions) fell victim. Rations of 800 calories covered only half of the actual needs of adults. https://www.grin.com/document/205235
No other article can be found in English than this one, which in a typical way tries to justify the forced hardship with the “guilt of the Germans”. http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art178861.asp
Not sure what this ‘plaint has to do with the fascinating film review from M. LeBlanc, but in fairness there have been numerous texts in English on the subject of the harrowing of Germany after the fall of the Third Reich. Canadian author James Bacques’ Other Losses and Crimes and Mercies are both readily available at archive.org. These were written and published long after the war but Englishman Montgomery Belgion’s Victors’ Justice was published by Henry Regnery Company of Illinois in 1949.
Clearly this is a case of hidden history, but the history is there if you know where to look.
I didn’t know where to place it, I should have put “OT” at the beginning.
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