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Laborers File Suit for Wartime Injustices

Tom Tugend March 11, 1999

Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal.

Berlin Diary

Wendy J. Madnick October 8, 1998

Diary from Berlin

Imagine that it is 1940, and Great Britain is fighting Hitler\’s Nazi Germany almost alone. Imagine, further, that an American who loves both America and England and hates the Nazis works in American intelligence and has access to secret files concerning Germany that, for whatever reason, the United States has not shared with Great Britain. This American gives the secrets to England and is caught.

Three’s Company

Orit Arfa April 9, 1998

Perli Pelzig first knew he had talent at the ageof 5, when he would chalk life-size figures of animals on thesidewalks in his native Germany. These figures attracted attentionfrom passers-by, and, not long after, Pelzig was named \”wunderkind\”for his dazzling artistic capabilities.

The Arts

Sally Ogle Davis March 26, 1998

What a peculiar piece of work is \”Bent.\” The film version ofMartin Sherman\’s play, first presented on the London stage in 1979,and later on Broadway, has taken almost 20 years to come to thescreen. It\’s not difficult to see why. Not only is it turgid stuff,with a paucity of unfilmable ideas, but in an industry that sometimesseems to specialize in specious history, it will be hard to matchthis one for irresponsibility.