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The Palme d’Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival’s organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the highest prize at the festival was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. Wikipedia
First awarded: 1955
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Michael Novakhov imagines:
Mr. Lavrov: “Thank you, thank you. I am so glad that everyone liked our heroic performance. Deutschland Uber Alles! Heil Putin! We are no Novichoks in ziz bizniz.”
“А где Федот (который не тот)?” Very reasonable question.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - A German soldier who fought for Adolf Hitler crawled out of a POW camp in New Mexico and was almost never seen again.
"He just changed his name, got married and lived here for 40 years acting as an American," said Macia Rosenstein, a historian at the Holocaust and Intolerance Museum in Albuquerque.
After watching, waiting and planning, German soldier Georg Gaertner slid out of the fence at Camp Deming and hopped onto a moving train, heading anywhere but back to Germany.
"There was a train track nearby and he paid attention to when the train came, he cut through the wire, got on the train and then, he was gone," said Rosenstein.
Gaertner's escape launched a 40-year, cross-country manhunt. He escaped Camp Deming very close to the end of World War II. At that time, there were 12 German soldiers who were fugitives expected to be hiding in the US. Over the years, all of them were caught except for Gaertner.
His story wasn't widely known, even after he came forward in the '80s. Now, Rosenstein is one of many people learning about his story and POW camps in New Mexico through a podcast called 'Hitler's Last Soldier' by The Way It Was.
Gaertner was captured in Africa. Soldiers brought him to Camp Deming, which was one of two POW camps in New Mexico. The other was in Albuquerque.
"They were given jobs working on farms and small factories," said Rosenstein.
Rosenstein says the Axis soldiers were treated well in New Mexico, so well that most didn't want to go home even at the end of the war.
"Some said it was better than what they had at home," said Rosenstein.
Fearing a return to then Soviet-occupied East Germany, Gaertner escaped, changed his name to Dennis Whiles and met a Colorado woman named Jean.
"Within six months, we were engaged," said Jean Whiles in the Hitler's Last Soldier podcast.
Gaertner lied to his wife about who he was for 25 years until finally coming clean in the '80s to her and the FBI.
"The fact that he kept it a secret for 40 years is what's amazing," said Rosenstein.
When Gaertner did come forward, he was never charged with any crime. Since he escaped after the war was over and was set to be sent home, the FBI couldn't figure out what to charge him with.
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Donald Trump entered office hoping that he could splinter the European Union. But what if his presidency has the effect of further unifying it—against America?
M.N.: No, it is the other way around: Germany is pushing Trump and the World to accept her renewed military and political ambitions. The New Munich shall not and will not happen. The New Germany has to be put in her place now, and her re-militarization should never be allowed. The Russian military and political leadership should pay a very close attention to this issue also. The New Abwehr has to be thoroughly investigated and dealt with.
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Michael Novakhov on the New Abwehr Hypothesis of Operation Trump – Google SearchSunday January 20th, 2019 at 6:51 AM
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"Until now, the core relationship in American foreign policy in Europe has been with Germany. That tie appears not simply to be fraying but on the verge of snapping. It will be no small irony if Trump has impelled Europe to transform itself into a unified great power."
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest
Donald Trump entered office hoping that he could splinter the European Union. But what if his presidency has the effect of further unifying it—against America?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's announcement that Europe can no longer rely on America as a partner and " must take our destiny into our own hands ” marks a turning point. Every American administration since 1945 has tried to work closely with Germany and NATO. Ronald Reagan even visited Bitburg cemetery in May 1985, in the face of controversy at home over the presence of SS graves, in order not to undermine the German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had stood by him in installing intermediate range Pershing missiles in 1983.
Trump is pushing Germany and Europe in a different direction. Now that France has elected Emanuel Macron president, Merkel is moving to fashion a Franco-German axis that will pursue a common economic and military path. This will signal a significant diminution in American prestige and influence abroad. Imagine, for example, that Merkel decided to defy Trump's push for sanctions and isolating Iran by establishing trade ties with North Korea, including selling it weapons.
We aren't there yet. But Trump's approach to Europe and elsewhere has been predicated on the notion that he can singlehandedly defy the rules of the game and extract what he wants. The problem is that he is emboldening Germany to become the superpower of Europe and inevitably it will pursue what it considers its own interests. This is after all the nation that invented the term realpolitik.
So far Merkel is focusing on building up a joint military command in Brussels and improving relations with Poland. Poland's president has visited Berlin twice this year. Both Germany and Poland view Russia similarly. With Britain out of the picture, Merkel reckons she can move more quickly toward solidifying common EU military measures. She is also looking at cleaning up the EU's finances. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that she wants to vouchsafe Brussels the economic clout to help ailing economies and boost reform efforts. In this regard, she will focus on trying to meet French demands for an easing of onerous fiscal demands on Southern Europe at least half way.
There is little appetite, at least as far as I could tell at a conference in Berlin sponsored by the American Council on Germany at the German Foreign Ministry, for transforming the country into a Fuehrungsmacht, or leading power. But Trump may be accelerating, willy-nilly, a development that he does not fully grasp. Overall it is hard to see what benefits America would derive by withdrawing from the Paris accords on the environment other than emotional satisfaction. It also seems clear from his complaints about German cars being sold in America that Trump doesn't know that many are manufactured in places like Alabama.
Until now, the core relationship in American foreign policy in Europe has been with Germany. That tie appears not simply to be fraying but on the verge of snapping. It will be no small irony if Trump has impelled Europe to transform itself into a unified great power.
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest .
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Michael Cohen has at least temporarily pulled the plug on his highly-anticipated
testimony before Congress
that had been scheduled for early next month.
Cohen had accepted an invitation to testify in an open session before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on February 7. He said, at the time he accepted, that he was looking forward to "having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired."
But in a new statement Wednesday, President Donald Trump's former attorney and long-time fixer says that he is delaying the appearance out of concern for his family.
"Due to ongoing threats against his family from President Trump and Mr. Giuliani, as recently as this weekend, as well as Mr. Cohen's continued cooperation with ongoing investigations, by advice of counsel, Mr. Cohen's appearance will be postponed to a later date," according to a statement from Cohen's attorney, Lanny J. Davis.
Trump, when asked Wednesday to respond to Cohen's accusation that his family has been threatened by the president and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Cohen was not threatened by him, but is "threatened by the truth."
"No, I would say he's been threatened by the truth. He's only been threatened by the truth," Trump said. "And he doesn't want to do that probably for me but probably for his clients, he has other clients also I assume, and he doesn't want to tell the truth for me or his other clients."
The decision by Cohen, a long-time loyalist who worked alongside Trump for a decade at the Trump Organization, may deprive House Democrats of their first high-profile hearing since taking control of the chamber in the mid-term elections.
While Cohen had no formal role in Trump's presidential campaign, his involvement in a myriad of controversies promised to attract an intense spotlight to his public testimony.
Last month, he entered a guilty plea for lying to Congress about the timing and discussions about a proposed Trump Tower building in Moscow that was under consideration during the campaign. That project, which never came to pass, has become the subject of intense interest from both Congress and the Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing potential coordination among members of the Trump campaign and Russians who interfered in the 2016 election.
Cohen also pleaded guilty in August to financial and tax crimes associated with his personal business dealings and to campaign finance violations for his role in hush money deals with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, two women who alleged previous affairs with Trump, which he has denied. Cohen told a federal judge that he made those deals "in coordination with and at the direction of" then-candidate Trump.
Trump has said he "never directed Michael Cohen to
break the law
."
Adding to the anticipation for the February hearing was the announcement by Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Stormy Daniels, that he and his client intended to be in attendance.
But the proposed testimony from Cohen was already losing some of its luster as it became clear that Cohen would be unable or unwilling to address topics currently under investigation by Mueller and other federal prosecutors.
And Cohen's decision to delay the testimony does not come as a complete surprise.
ABC News
reported exclusively last week
that Cohen began to have reservations about the appearance following a series of public attacks by President Trump against him and his family, according to sources close to Cohen.
"This is a time where Mr. Cohen had to put his family and their safety first," Cohen's statement read.
In an interview with FOX News earlier this month, Trump called Cohen "weak," accused him of lying to prosecutors in order to get a reduced sentence, and hinted -- unprompted and without evidence -- that he possessed damaging information about Cohen's family.
"[Cohen] should give information maybe on his father-in-law, because that's the one that people want to look at," Trump told FOX News host Jeanine Pirro. "That's the money in the family."
There has been no public indication during the investigation of Cohen that his father-in-law is, or was, the subject of any criminal inquiry.
As the president continued to engage in what Cohen sees as reckless and unsubstantiated claims he believes are intended to intimidate him, Cohen had expressed to friends his concern that Trump's heated rhetoric on television and Twitter could incite an unstable person to target him or his family.
Some legal experts were also highly critical of Trump's comments.
"It's an absolutely shocking violation of norms for the chief executive to suggest a retaliatory investigation against the relative of a witness against him," said Kenneth White, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney with Brown, White & Osborn LLP. "This is Nixonian 'enemy list' stuff, but instead of the public finding out about it through secret tapes and insiders, the president is saying it openly on TV."
Trump's comments to FOX News had drawn a
swift rebuke
from Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, the new chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who had extended the invitation to Cohen.
"The integrity of our process to serve as an independent check on the Executive Branch must be respected by everyone, including the President," Cummings said in a statement released Sunday that was joined by Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic chairmen of the House Intelligence and House Judiciary Committees.
Cohen's scheduled appearance had already become the subject of fierce partisan squabbling on the House Oversight Committee, with Republican lawmakers expressing concern Tuesday that the hearing was shaping up to be a "media stunt" engineered by one of Cohen's legal advisers, Lanny Davis, a Democratic political operative who had worked closely with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
In a letter to Cohen attorney Guy Petrillo, Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the Oversight Committee, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC, a leader of the House Freedom Caucus and a Trump confidant, appeared to be casting aspersions on Cohen and Davis and the circumstances of the hearing -- while raising questions about Davis, his involvement with Cohen and his compensation.
"If Davis is providing free media advisory or legal services, or if someone else is paying Davis's fees, it adds to the perception Cohen's appearance is a media stunt initiated, produced and financed by career Democrat political operatives as a way of scoring political points against the President," the letter said.
It's unclear what impact Cohen's decision to delay his testimony will have on the efforts of other Congressional committees who want to hear from him.
ABC News
reported last week
that the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, is nearing a decision to issue Cohen a subpoena. Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee had indicated that he is seeking Cohen's testimony on Russia related matters in a closed session in the near future.
For all of the committees, time is running short. Cohen is due to report to federal prison by March 6. He was sentenced to three years in custody after pleading guilty to financial crimes, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations.
ABC's Benjamin Siegel and Trish Turner contributed to this report.
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Donald Trump entered office hoping that he could splinter the European Union. But what if his presidency has the effect of further unifying it—against America?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's announcement that Europe can no longer rely on America as a partner and " must take our destiny into our own hands ” marks a turning point. Every American administration since 1945 has tried to work closely with Germany and NATO. Ronald Reagan even visited Bitburg cemetery in May 1985, in the face of controversy at home over the presence of SS graves, in order not to undermine the German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had stood by him in installing intermediate range Pershing missiles in 1983.
Trump is pushing Germany and Europe in a different direction. Now that France has elected Emanuel Macron president, Merkel is moving to fashion a Franco-German axis that will pursue a common economic and military path. This will signal a significant diminution in American prestige and influence abroad. Imagine, for example, that Merkel decided to defy Trump's push for sanctions and isolating Iran by establishing trade ties with North Korea, including selling it weapons.
We aren't there yet. But Trump's approach to Europe and elsewhere has been predicated on the notion that he can singlehandedly defy the rules of the game and extract what he wants. The problem is that he is emboldening Germany to become the superpower of Europe and inevitably it will pursue what it considers its own interests. This is after all the nation that invented the term realpolitik.
So far Merkel is focusing on building up a joint military command in Brussels and improving relations with Poland. Poland's president has visited Berlin twice this year. Both Germany and Poland view Russia similarly. With Britain out of the picture, Merkel reckons she can move more quickly toward solidifying common EU military measures. She is also looking at cleaning up the EU's finances. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that she wants to vouchsafe Brussels the economic clout to help ailing economies and boost reform efforts. In this regard, she will focus on trying to meet French demands for an easing of onerous fiscal demands on Southern Europe at least half way.
There is little appetite, at least as far as I could tell at a conference in Berlin sponsored by the American Council on Germany at the German Foreign Ministry, for transforming the country into a Fuehrungsmacht, or leading power. But Trump may be accelerating, willy-nilly, a development that he does not fully grasp. Overall it is hard to see what benefits America would derive by withdrawing from the Paris accords on the environment other than emotional satisfaction. It also seems clear from his complaints about German cars being sold in America that Trump doesn't know that many are manufactured in places like Alabama.
Until now, the core relationship in American foreign policy in Europe has been with Germany. That tie appears not simply to be fraying but on the verge of snapping. It will be no small irony if Trump has impelled Europe to transform itself into a unified great power.
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest .
Image Credit : Creative Commons.
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