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Rossellini’s War Trilogy on DVD

Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Edumnd Meschke as a 12-year-old in postwar Berlin in “Germany Year Zero.” Rossellini had moral courage to find sorrow whre others had understandably found horror. By DAVE KEHR Published: January 22, 2010

Edumnd Meschke as a 12-year-old in postwar Berlin in “Germany Year Zero.” Rossellini had moral courage to find sorrow whre others had understandably found horror. By DAVE KEHR Published: January 22, 2010

Had to give this a quick mention Roberto Rossellini‘s War Trilogy (Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero) recently released by Criterion Collection as a box set – classic war films, and certainly some of the best war films in my opinion; all the more fascinating as they were made very shortly after the war finished.   Worth seeing if you have never seen them before, and this release is remastered by the Criterion Collection is going to be of the highest quality.

Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero) (Criterion Collection)

Other films of note that where made in the immediate period after the war are:

LINK from NY Times : In Rossellini’s War Movies, the Naturalism Survives

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German Foundation: No Money for Forced WWII Laborers

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

 German Foundation: No Money for Forced WWII Laborers

From Deutsche Welle website -

A state-backed German foundation set up to fund compensation payments to slave laborers under the regime of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has no money to pay Italian soldiers forced into labor during World War II.

The “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (Remembrance, Responsibility and Future) Foundation told the Sunday edition of Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper that the money remaining at the foundation’s disposal had been earmarked for other purposes.

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