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ollowing the success of last
year's Lift Is Beautiful, movie
studios seem willing to base
feature films around the Nazi
occupation. Films based on the
Holocaust are no longer just docu-dra-
mas that play on emotion and sordid
images of death and destruction. A new
genre of World War II films is emerging
— and audiences who were once skepti-
cal are now willing to attempt a subject
that is far from amusing.

HOPE AMID DESPAIR

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