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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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."
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."
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.