Tag: occupation of Germany

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“We are the natives of Trizonesia,” as the singer Karl Berbuer once put into words the feeling in “colonized” West Germany, the three-way occupation zones of the United States, Britain, and France. A film that was produced on that topic is The Big Lift (1950), filmed on the heels of the now famous Berlin Airlift of 1948-49.

Reviewers have made fun of all the technical information the audience is subjected to in it: How does radar work, and how is the ground crew handling all that air traffic? (more…)

Theodor Seuss Geisel during his wartime service in the US Army.

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Though it’s been almost a year since our crazed oligarchs decided that Dr. Seuss is racist and several of his books need to disappear, aspects of his cancellation are worth reexamination. Though it pales in comparison to other absurd proclamations from our deranged ruling class — most recently, the Anti-Defamation League schizoiding on the definition of racism, and yet more adults having to apologize for saying bad words –, what makes the Seuss fiasco so hysterical and ironic is that he was one of the Left’s own. (more…)