Sentences with phrase «before nazi»

Schwitters's escape from Germany took him first to Norway, where he boarded the last ship to leave the country before Nazi occupation.

Jewish collector's heirs file suit over German bank's Kandinsky The descendants of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, whose family fled the Netherlands before the Nazi invasion in 1940, have filed a suit claiming rightful ownership of a 1907 Wassily Kandinsky painting currently owned by the Bayerische Landesbank (Bavarian State Bank).

Her father, Joseph Korbel, was a diplomat who managed to move the family to England before the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Her father, Joseph Korbel, was a diplomat who managed to move the family to England before the Nazi invasion of...

Paper Love By Sarah Wildman Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9781594633973 Finding a box of love letters with her late grandfather's papers spurs Wildman to search for the woman he left behind when he fled Vienna just before the Nazi occupation of Austria.

Nearly a year before Nazi - punching rightfully recaptured the country's imagination, Saulnier's «Green Room» carried the art form to unforeseen heights.

«Dunkirk» — Christopher Nolan's sprawling World War II epic about the evacuation of allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces invade is a dazzling technical marvel.

«In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters.

Poland may be predominantly catholic, but there was a time, before the Nazi occupation, when it was the best place in Europe for the cultural support and mixing of Jews and Christians.

Before the Nazis took power in 1933, ugly and open attacks on German Jews typified holiday propaganda.

What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.

The Judeo Bolsheviks were slaughtering Christians in Eastern Europe long before the Nazis even came on the scene.

The Judeo Bolsheviks were slaughtering people in larger numbers then the Nazis ever did and were doing so before the Nazis even came on the scene.

It was then that the medical and legal justifications for assisted suicide and euthanasia took root - a decade or more before the Nazis came on the scene.

This End Time truth about gaining one's soul comes through in these words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on suffering, written shortly before the Nazis hanged him in April 1945:

The hotel emptied in hours with people rushing to the consulates in Prague with the hope of leaving before the Nazis took over.

Language: English Genre: Adventure / Action MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, John Rhys - Davies Plot: While Indiana's father is off searching for the grail and goes missing, he is called upon to rescue him before the Nazis find the Holy Grail.

Goldblum plays the part as a charming showman, a celebrated clown before the Nazis banned Jews from the stage, now playing the life of the party with an effortless charm.

The idea that America had problems before the Nazis showed up is there, and it's powerful, but it's obscured by seemingly conflicting ideas.

Christine offers to hide Isaac before the Nazis take him and his family away.

In 1938, escaping his beloved, native Czechoslovakia before the Nazis rolled in and seized control, Robert Bozdech joined the French Air Force.

It is a re-introduction of the coat of arms of the Weimar Republic, which came before the Nazis.

And I think of Trude Heller's story and her «series of miracles»: the miracle that she escaped Vienna before the Nazis built concentration camps for women; the miracle that united her with her husband, Max; and the miracle that brought them to my city.

If Rick doesn't get on that train before the Nazis arrive, he's doomed.

Reluctantly, Quatermain agrees to help the US government find a powerful artefact before the Nazis or the Russians do.

Karl has missions where he has to sabotage a rail gun that is keeping the allies at bay, or secure a high - value target before the Nazis do, and within the story, he sides with a group of Italian resistance fighters, pulling off missions to help their cause.

The film took inspiration from real WWII events to portray the story of the platoon that rescued Europe's artistic treasures before Nazis stole or destroyed them.

Reluctantly, Quatermain agrees to help the US government find a powerful artefact before the Nazis or the Russians do.

Not exact matches

The Romanian - born real estate tycoon survived Nazi labour camps before arriving in Canada in 1951.

Some social - media posters called Under Armour's Plank a «Nazi» before he resigned Monday, while others the next day labeled him a «sissy» for leaving.

According to Nazi intellectuals, cherished holiday traditions drew on winter solstice rituals practiced by «Germanic» tribes before the arrival of Christianity.

Einstein, of course, had previously written to President Franklin Roosevelt, urging him to build the bomb in the first place, fearing that the Nazis would get there before the Allies.

The results were so disastrous that the trade war prolonged the Great Depression, contributed to the rise of Nazis and other fascist leaders, and sank US exports by 61 % from 1929 to 1933 before being repealed in 1934.

Keeping purity before marriage is far easer than protecting the Jews from Nazis.

Their father warned them about the Nazi evil at the very beginning of the new regime, and at their trial their father bravely cried out, «There is a higher court before which we all must stand!»

Many Jews» observant Jews, most of all» opposed Zionism before the rise of the Nazis, but later they learned that the continuation of Jewish life requires full national existence.

Actually I figured it out before you did, Mr Grammar Nazis.

Before these bodies could report» and probably because im partial investigation was likely to reveal a very different picture from that suggested by the WJC» the WJC added two further demands to the Swiss authorities: compensation for refugees allegedly denied asylum by the Swiss during the war, and compensation for bars of gold sold to Switzerland by Nazi Germany that were allegedly made from the fillings of victims» teeth.

In France, before the Second World War, a great many people sided with the Nazis.

An uncle was being hunted by the Nazis for his activities against them and died from a heart attack before he was caught.

And when he stood silent in Yad Vashem» whose plain and stark memorialization of the horrors that befell the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis positively begs for silence» he left a drop of the kind of healing balm on the hearts of Jews that the Church had never before found the means (assuming the desire) to do.

And before hostilities broke out between France, Britain, and Germany, Pius XII warned of Nazi military plans.

Historian Peter Gay seems to think as much, noting that Heidegger was generally understood as a «philosophical fascist» as early as 1927 — fully six years before Heidegger officially entered the Nazi party.

Matthew Richardson: So when the Nazi's were overrunning Europe, and the Japanese Bombed our fleet at Pearl Harbor, were our leaders supposed to hear from God before they Declared War?

The Nazis killed the Jews because they were panic - stricken before the redemptive future which God was calling them into.

We recall standing before a book store window on Maria - Hilfenstrasse in Viennain July 1939, when the Nazi propaganda was in high gear, and seeing the bloodcurdling display of...

Post-World War II Germany, however, has confronted the truth of the Nazi era, decade by decade, in an accumulation of public reminders of its evils — evils that must be remembered before they can be forgotten.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

The present - day narrative alternates with passages set before, during, and after World War II, and it was in the depiction of the atrocities perpetrated by my Nazi characters that I shocked myself.

As Sanchez's study indicates, Eugenio Pacelli publicly and privately warned of the dangers of Nazism both before and after he became pope; he denounced the deportations and persecution of Europe's Jews and was almost universally recognized, including by the Nazis themselves, as an unrelenting opponent of the National Socialist regime.