criminating material.
The tured Klaus Barbie has warned the French that he will reveal damaging information at his forthcoming trial. Even in Britain the government has blocked the declassification of concerning stale British fascists in the '30s and '40s.
Only a handful of films have dealt period. In One Man's War Edgardo Cozarinsky has gathered some striking material. The film is made up from newsreels taken in France during the Occupation.
Diaries The soundtrack alternates between the newsreader's commentary extracts the diaries of Ernst Junger, celebrated German writer and career officer who was posted to Paris. as military commander.
Junger's meticulously detailed observations are in contrast to une sursuell: bombastic newsreels. His sardonic Karl Marx - The Legacy THIS appalling series is enough to make throw all three volumes of 'Capital' at the screen.
It's no surprise that Marxist historian David McLennan disassociated himselt trom it.
If you want to see the depths unlal British ONE OF the lesser-known areas of modern history is the behaviour of the European populations under German occupation during the Second World War. Many ex-collaborators and fascist sympathisers are still alive inhibiting historians from publishing insociety intrigues, rumours about the extermination of Jews and dinner at Maxim's overlay pictures fashion shows, collaborators' Tallies German victories on the Eastern Front.
This unusual approact o documentary effectively demonstrates the difficulties facing both soldiers and civilians who are trying understand their situation and destinv in war-time. Fraudulent Permeate every aspect of But this view of oçcupied misleading. The urbane, articulale Junger drones over the period newsreels, suffusing the with perverse nostalgia. His situation as a sensitive, cultivalca man caught reluctantly in an predicament invites our sympathy.
Cozarinsky's handling therefore ambivalent.
On the one hand the vulgar ideology of Nazi rule, on the other central The harsh reality of the concentration camp behind Junger's civilities Thursdays 31 March and 7 April BBC2 liberalism can descend to, this is the series for In this week's gripping episode, Briggs it all us how Lenin got wrong in prescribing the Bolshevik mennoc TOT the rest of the Next week iow ceil Ernst Junger character who attempts to Malail life's civilities.
This ot war as troubling dilemma is essentially bourgeois humanist idea.
What is needed 1S a reworking of these newsreels from a committed socialist viewpoint.
War is a variant of class conflict, and the conflict with fascism was of unsurwanted to abolish the Tang An a but i (Friday press hack Max Hastings discuss the series.
Glasgow -BBC2 THE highlight this programme in the BBC's about Glasgow should Harry McShane recalling his passed brutality degradation. Fascism is a product ot canitaism specifically of conservative reactionary capitalism.
Occupied Europe's middle classes acquiesced, colluded or collaborated in mell own exploitation and in working class suffering.
Despite enormous propaganda efforts years of struggle on Clydeside.
The militancy of the DaSL compared Will today's union organisation.
FIRST in a new series with Jonathan Dimbleby which features the letters of Lieutenant David tinker, killed the South Atlantic war.
'I cannot think of a single war in material inducements, comparatively workers volunteered work Germany. film misleads you to think otherwise.
We see the reopening of the stock exchange, but The Falls Road has and anti-British struggle older inhabitants of the community. few The Arguments for Falls Memories (Published by Brandon Book Publishers Ltd, been at the centre The present political crisis first hit Belfast with a vengeance when the Lower Falls was attacked by 1969. The loyalists naturally supported by the armed gangsters of the It was also the first anti-unionist area to taste the severity of British military oppression with the imposition of martial law and the conse reputation as being the heartland of anti-unionist Gerry Adams, in this lively and entertaining ac. count looks at the poverty and troubles of the thir ties. He shows what effect the war had on the area in the forties, using the method of interviewing the By the use of the street games, songs, anecdotes and lure of the Falls, Gerry Adams adds a richness and colour to the lives and history of this brave which has never dipped in surrender Born in the Falls in 1948, the author has lived in the area all his life. He knows his community and has a deep and genuine affection for its Like them he has fought for a united, free Ireland.
In the late sixties he was involved in the West Belfast Civil Rights Association and in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. He was in.
Fein. Falls Memories is a moving and informative
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