Word: munich
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This Is the Army. In Munich, an American officer's wife arrived from the U.S., deposited her two children in her husband's house, promptly departed after remarking: "Now you take care of them for a few years...
...Munich, ex-German-American Bund-leader Fritz Kuhn was given a clean bill of health by denazification authorities, who pointed out that he had not lived in Germany during the Nazi regime...
...Munich, Heinrich Hoffman, Hitler's official photographer, admitted that he had realized a fortune of $800,000 from his Reich picture books, had even sold 10,000 photos of Hitler to the French during the occupation. Hoffman, who had aided the Allied prosecution at Nürnberg, got a ten-year sentence from his fellow Germans...
...unusual film was made in and near Barcelona during the death agonies of the Loyalist cause. It was produced and directed by the famed French novelist and soldier, Andre Malraux, from episodes in his book of the same title. The film had to be smuggled into France, where post-Munich timidity prevented its release. Throughout the German occupation it was hidden. Malraux's first & only film, it places him-as readers might have guessed from the cinematic elements in his writing-among the few top movie talents...
...Wells, "that this blinkered, pleasant, gossipy, gullible snob," Sir Samuel Hoare should be named British Ambassador to Spain. Wells was not the only one to wince. The nauseous memory of the Hoare-Laval Deal to appease Mussolini (1935) was still fresh. That of the Hitler-sweetening at Munich was even fresher. In 1940 Britain needed someone to talk straight, not sweet, to Spain's Franco. Sir Samuel hardly seemed the man. He had passed "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin," said a wag, "without discernible effect upon his condition...