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Their interest was more than passing. TIME, to them, is one of their principal weapons for dealing with the flood of Communist propaganda that sweeps into their home areas from Eastern Germany - and points farther east. In the North Rhine-Westphalia area alone, reported Hans Joachim Oertel of Düseldorf, 256 Communist journals are distributed. TIME, he found, was his best rebuttal to their propaganda...
...Said Oertel : "TIME is believed in - that is its great asset in Germany. Editors use it as an archive and as a guide to the meaning and the significance of news from other parts of the world...
Does TIME know where Producer Curt Oertel, who made the Michelangelo film The Titan [TIME, Jan. 30], now lives? While serving with U.S. combat forces in April 1945, I found him in a little village which is now within the Russian-occupied zone of Germany. At that time he was working . . . on a documentary of famous German...
...Swiss Producer Oertel now lives in the U.S.-occupied town of Wiesbaden, where he is working on a new documentary film (in color) on the life, times and work of 16th Century Flemish Painter Pieter Bruegel...
Filmed mostly in Rome and Florence in 1938-40 by Swiss Producer Curt Oertel, the original version of The Titan was snapped up by German companies and palmed off as a product of Nazi Kultur. After the U.S. Army discovered the film in France, a copy found its way to Manhattan and caught the paternal eye of Robert J. Flaherty, whose classic Nanook of the North (1922) made him the granddaddy of documentary movies. Flaherty set out to get the picture's U.S. rights...