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- Aug. 28, 1989: From The Publisher
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Asked to find and interview people who lived through the
- Nazi invasion of Poland 50 years ago, Jerusalem reporter Marlin
- Levin contacted dozens of sources before he was finally steered
- to Rafael Loc, 79, a Tel Aviv lawyer who emigrated to Israel
- from Poland in 1956. Loc had not only been a lieutenant on the
- front lines but had also survived five years in a German POW
- camp. "As his wife served homemade Polish cake, Loc spent two
- hours telling me about his adventures," says Levin. "The fact
- that he lived through the war when nearly every Polish Jew had
- been killed is remarkable."
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- <p> Loc's recollections are part of our look back at one of the
- 20th century's watershed events -- the beginning of World War
- II. (A second installment next week will trace the war up to
- Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.) Polish President Wojciech
- Jaruzelski spoke to John Borrell about his family's flight to
- Lithuania three weeks after the invasion, while Otto von
- Habsburg, son of Austria- Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for
- Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the
- Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz
- Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's famous
- propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a
- well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in
- the Caribbean and looked 20 years younger than her age (87).
- Leonora Dodsworth tracked down Edda Ciano, Mussolini's eldest
- daughter, at her elegant apartment in Rome. "She has Il Duce's
- baleful glare and obviously still adores her father."
- </p>
- <p> The main narrative was written by Otto Friedrich, who
- remembers the day of the invasion clearly. "I was ten years old
- and sat glued to the shortwave radio in the living room of my
- father's farm in Vermont, trying to get news of the air raids,"
- he recalls. Assembling the pictures for the report, which was
- designed by Arthur Hochstein, Mary Dunn found a set of stills
- taken of Hitler that showed him honing his speech gestures; a
- picture from that extraordinary series illustrates the profile
- of Hitler in this issue.
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