ONE measure of the enormity of the crimes committed by Hitler's Germany can be found in how long it took American popular culture to conceptualize them. Although the Holocaust was acknowledged in a handful of Hollywood films from the late 1940s and early '50s, like Orson Welles's "Stranger" (1946), Fred Zinnemann's "Search" (1948) and Edward Dmytryk's "Juggler" (1953), it wasn't until George Stevens's 1959 adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" that the subject was presented front and center in...
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