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<title>
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>
<hdr>
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."
</p>
<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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