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Association of Jewish Chaplains Protests Against “desert Fox”

November 30, 1951
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The Association of Jewish Chaplains of the U.S. Armed Forces today issued a statement protesting against the showing of the film “The Desert Fox” glamorizing Gen. Rommel, the Nazi military commander. The statement termed the film as “perhaps the most cynically immoral picture ever to come out of Hollywood.”

“As chaplains who served with those military forces which at great sacrifice successfully resisted the Nazi onslaught, we are dismayed at the callous forgetfulness of our fellow-Americans, and at the sordid motives of the producers who have capitalized on our own moral indifference,” the statement says.

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