Doing the Assassin in My mother and I were in my grandmother’s apartment, which was adjacent to ours in our house in Rueppgasse. I witnessed the ransacking of my ransacking my grandmother’s apartment in Rueppgasse by SA-marauders. I was three[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Archiv für Polemics
Philip Roth and Jewish Mothers Jewish mothers may have their failings, but as far as I am concerned, the good sides outweigh the bad sides. One of our prominent American writers is down on them. Book after book appears with[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Faithful Till the End Joseph Goebbels, had been a seminary student and he was also the author of a novel titled Michael. Later he found a cause and his new religion became National Socialism. Joseph and Magda and both had[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Way We Were* Music by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman Mem’ries light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored mem’ries of the way we were Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The High Art of Creative Cruelty “I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability would be on another level….Thus, art can consist of a crime.” [1] Killing was and is[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Gabriel Ich habe den Namen Gabriel immer mit dem Typen mit Flügeln und einem Horn verbunden. Blow, Gabriel, Blow ist einer der wunderbaren Schlager aus Anything Goes von Cole Porter. “Blow, Gabriel, blow! Come on and blow, Gabriel, blow! I[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
What Else Is New? This is from a Stasi document from 1973: “Don’t shy away from using your weapon, even if the breach of the border involves women and children!” Of course! Anyone who tried to cross the German-German border[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Eine Karriere Es gab einen Schauspieler, der Mitglied der NSDAP war, der in Propagandafilmen gespielt, und Kollegen bei der Gestapo denunziert hat, die deportiert und hingerichtet worden sind. Er setzte seine Karriere nach dem Krieg fort ohne ein Wort des Bedauerns. Auf[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Wahre Fähigkeiten muß man ausnützen Walter Dejacos Leistungen als Architekt sind beeindruckend. Dazu gehören das Konzept und die Ausführung des Baus der Gaskammern und Krematorien in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Häftlinge waren so begeistert, an der Errichtung dieser Anlagen mitzumachen, daß sie ohne Bezahlung[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Gäste im Vatikan Nachdem die Alliierten 1943 in Sizilien gelandet waren, marschierten die Deutschen in Norditalian ein. Der Vatikan bot 477 Juden Gastfreundschaft an. Das war die „J-Gruppe“. Im Jahre 1945, nach der Kapitulation Nazi-Deutschlands, durften die Gäste den Vatikan[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
from Holy Roman Shenanigans The great crimes of this earth are murder, rape and torture. A murderer takes the life of a human being. A rapist violates a human being. A torturer inflicts unbearable pain on his victim. The suffering[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Something Like a Junkie Violence is on the upswing. Your chances of avoiding victimization are diminishing. What we need is a palliative for pain that insures a life without physical suffering, and it has come on the market. I’m something[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Career There was an actor who was a member of the Nazi Party, who acted in propaganda films and denounced colleagues to the Gestapo, causing them to be deported and executed, and who continued his career after the war[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …