Mémoires de Guerre

published 30/05/2001 at 16:28 GMT With the conviction of 89-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, Anton Malloth, by a court in Germany for murder and attempted murder of prisoners under his charge, BBC analyst Jan Repa considers some of the underlying...

published 30/05/2001 at 11:11 GMT A court in Germany has sentenced an 89-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to life in prison. Anton Malloth was convicted of beating and kicking a Jewish prisoner to death at the Theresienstadt prison camp in...

GOOD MORNING: I, too remember Marilyn Monroe — fondly. Even though she kept me waiting for hours anytime I visited one of her sets. Like “Some Like It Hot,” with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Billy Wilder on the beach in front of the Del Coronado hotel. My...

published 29/05/2001 at 21:30 GMT An Australian court has ruled that 87-year-old Konrad Kalejs can be extradited to Latvia where he is wanted on charges of war crimes and genocide. Kalejs has attended court in a wheelchair The charges against Mr Kalejs...

Un magistrat australien a prononcé mardi un ordre d'extradition vers son pays natal pour l'ancien officier pro-nazi Konrad Kalejs. Responsable des gardes du camp de Salaspis, en Lettonie, l'homme, âgé de 87 ans, n'a fini par être inquiété qu'en 1994. Le...

Almost two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America’s favorite movie star. More than an actor, Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on Wayne’s...

'I was taken to a secret camp and tortured. No one can describe the pain. I'd hear a child crying and they'd say, "This is your son." They allowed me one call. I phoned Anesty...' Five survivors relate their experiences. Juan María Bordaberry María Gillespie...

Le Point publié publié le 25/05/2001 à 11:56 Décidément, la question du « droit des bêtes » passionne nos contemporains. Comme celle des sombres temps de la guerre ne les laisse pas indifférents non plus, il suffit de croiser les deux thèmes pour réussir...

Conspiration (Conspiracy) est un téléfilm américano-britannique de Frank Pierson, produit par HBO, avec Kenneth Branagh dans le rôle de Reinhard Heydrich, et Stanley Tucci dans celui d'Adolf Eichmann, diffusé en 2001. Il raconte le déroulement de la conférence...

Début 1944, Lauren Bacall et Humphrey Bogart se rencontrent sur le tournage du Port de l'angoisse. Plus de vingt-cinq ans les séparent, pourtant, en quelques semaines, l'attirance mutuelle se mue en un amour fou. Humphrey est bien décidé à refaire sa...

Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the electrifying performer of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, From Here to Eternity,...

Despite the evidence indicating that Hitler committed suicide in Berlin in 1945, numerous stories have sprung up since World War II, placing Hitler in the Amazon, in a fortress in the Antarctic, and in many other locales. Author McKale looks at all the...

publié le 15/05/2001 à 12h17 Ex-terroriste proche de la Fraction Armée Rouge, elle est condamnée pour tentative de meurtre, lors d'un attentat manqué en Espagne, en 1988. L'ancienne terroriste allemande Andrea Klump a été condamnée ce mardi à neuf ans...

Les Alsaciens ou les Deux Mathilde est un téléfilm français de Michel Favart diffusé le 11 octobre 1996 en quatre épisodes de 90 minutes chacun, qui retrace la période trouble qu'a connue l'Alsace-Lorraine entre 1870 et 1953. Mathilde Kempf, fille du...

Richard Krieger is waging a one-man crusade to rid the United States of modern-day war criminals who have taken refuge in the Land of the Free. Bronx-born Krieger, 67, is a former State Department official who spent three decades hunting and deporting...

published 14/05/2001 at 06:58 GMT Alleged war criminal Konrad Kalejs has appeared in a magistrates court in Melbourne, Australia to fight extradition to Latvia. Mr Kalejs says he is too frail to stand trial He gave the command directly or indirectly to...

Trente ans. Près de trente années ont été nécessaires pour que s'efface la blessure. Pour que la communauté juive lève enfin l'interdit qui pesait jusqu'alors sur le groupe des Amitiés judéo-chrétiennes lyonnaises, dissous en 1972, en pleine affaire Touvier....

Aumônier des armées de 1945 à 1967, Mgr Jean Badré, 88 ans, a été témoin des événements d'Algérie Le Général Aussaresses Le Point - Votre réaction aux déclarations du général Aussaresses ? Mgr Badré - Je ne sais pas qui est cet homme. En Algérie, il devait...

Les médecins nazis commirent d'innombrables atrocités pour tenter de créer, selon le projet dément d'Hitler, la race allemande des seigneurs. Cependant au cours de ses recherches, l'historien des sciences Robert Proctor a découvert que l'Allemagne nazie...

TOBY WING, the actress, who has died in Maine aged 84, was the quintessential blonde, blue-eyed chorus girl. Although she had few lead roles, most of which were rather small, her looks ensured that she became a favourite of numerous producers and photographers...

published 01/05/2001 at 09:17 by Shlomo Ben Ami Caracas, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela has always prided itself on being unsullied by South America's reputation as a haven for fugitive Nazis, so a claim that it is harboring 18 Nazi collaborators has shocked...

Le 12 janvier, un tortionnaire argentin, M. Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, a été extradé du Mexique vers l’Espagne, pour y être jugé. Le 6 mars, à Buenos Aires, un autre juge a abrogé les lois qui mettaient les militaires à l’abri de poursuites judiciaires depuis...

Commissaire général aux questions juives sous Vichy, Xavier Vallat (1891-1972) est avec Edouard Drumont la figure emblématique de l'antisémitisme français. Pourtant, son itinéraire politique et sa contribution à la persécution des juifs pendant l'Occupation...

New York Daily News published 30/04/2001 at 12:00 AM Vienna - Kurt Waldheim, whose term as Austrian president was clouded by allegations he hid a Nazi past, said yesterday that newly released CIA files clear him of wrongdoing. Waldheim, the UN secretary...

published 30/04/2001 at 07:01 Newly declassified CIA files provide an inside glimpse of the extent to which U.S. intelligence officials relied on suspected Nazi war criminals for information about the Soviets after World War II. According to the files,...

A judicious yet candid biography of Hart (1904–61), the Broadway Prospero who transformed out-of-town dross into opening-night gold—and his own torments into opportunities for success. Escaping a miserable, poverty-stricken upbringing, Hart achieved celebrity...

At age nine, Ava Gardner went to the Howell Theater in Smithfield, North Carolina, with her mother Mollie to see her mother's favorite movie star Clark Gable starring as a safari leader in Africa with Jean Harlow in Red Dust. Twenty years later Ava would...

New York Daily News publihsed 28/04/2001 at 12:00 AM by Dave Goldiner S. files nazi leaders reveal intense western efforts to recruit nazi war criminals and a fascination psychological portrait of Adolf Hitler The new information about Hitler comes in...

A Living Testimony. Fifty-five years after the end of World War II , the Holocaust continues to cast a dark shadow. For the past two decades, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by videotaping...

CNN published 27/04/2001 at: 7:47 AM Washington (CNN) -- Previously classified CIA files on top Nazi officials -- including Adolf Hitler, Josef Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Mueller and Klaus Barbie -- are to be released Friday. The documents are...