Otto Preminger Quotes
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
Preminger, Otto. Preminger: An Autobiography. Doubleday, 1977, p. 74.
He had abdicated and was serving as the Governor of the Bahamas at the time. While the public was given the reason for has abdication as his love for a divorced woman, his pro Nazi viewpoints which were not publicly known in England, made him unacceptable and his treason a danger to England at war with Nazi Germany.
The military security people were so used to ferreting out communists in the 1930s that they had a hard time adjusting to the fact that the security risks or people who might have German connections or backgrounds. Many immigrant scientists were recruited for work on the Manhattan project to build the atomic bomb and they only did security clearances. The military security people kept checking on any communist background they might have had as opposed to possible connections with fascist organizations. By the end of the war they had adjusted but then had to go back to looking for communists as the Cold War evolved.
Dulles had little regard for the immorality of using Nazis as agents including major war criminals—even when it was against U. S. law and policy. The CIA continued to be insensitive and over the years employed some of the worst right wing murders and war criminals, The “precedent” was set after WWII by Dulles. See also {633240}.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. There was a small but significant pro-Nazi faction in England as in the United States.
This is an important quotation because it shows that Franco was not only a Fascist but one who supported and approved of Hitler personally and his criminal programs. Most Spaniards have thereafter regretted that the Spanish Dictator could take such a murderous and inhumane position on behalf of the Spanish people. Franco was supported only by some of the very wealthy, part of the military and the Catholic Church leadership. The latter also makes this quotation important, in that it is very doubtful that the Spanish church leaders would support Hitler if the Pope and the Vatican were opposed to Hitler and the Nazis. Yet some Vatican representatives have maintained that the Pope was definitely opposed to Hitler and Nazism, but the evidence for this is not strong. This quotation tends to lend more credence to the Papal critics.
The man who was “the best war photographer in the world” but was a refugee from Hungary in New York. The Government actually prohibited him from having a camera and would not give him a visa to go to Europe to cover the War. Finally the government relented from its absurd concept of security and Capa became the leading photographer of the American Army effort in Europe and shot the greatest photos of the D-Day landing. Incredibly, in the McCarthy era, his passport was rescinded by the State Department because he had photographed the Spanish Civil War and was wrongly thought a communist. After legal action he got his passport back and covered Vietnam. While with front-line American troops he was blown up by a mine, the first American journalist killed in the Vietnam war. And the man who the State Department thought disloyal in three wars, was given a military funeral in Vietnam and his family was offered burial in Arlington National Cemetery reserved for American military.
Many scientists were reluctant to work on instruments of death and destruction. Roosevelt and others were so successful that virtually every major scientist in America worked on the war effort including the development of the atomic bomb.
He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro-Hungarian born theatre and film director.
