This concept is at the central themes of the film: the degradation of pure communism, the Western-like repression of free sexuality, and the ignored applicability of Reich's theories of human sexuality to personal freedom also in economic and political realms.

Curtis ' appearance highlighted Reich's theories of gender and sexuality.

The tribunal came to the consensus that Neurath, though a willing and active participant in war crimes, held no such prominent position during the height of the Third Reich's tyranny and was therefore only a minor adherent to the atrocities committed.

Meetings were held in the basement of Reich's house in Forest Hills.

Carl Diem held high posts in the Third Reich's sports organization ( NSRL ) even after the Olympics, becoming the leader of the Foreign Department of the Nationalsocialist Sports Office in 1939.

Heinrich Himmler held the title of Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung or general plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration.

At the first Reich's Synod of Confession ( erste Reichsbekenntnissynode ) held in Wuppertal-Barmen between 29-31 May 1934, it called itself the Confessing Church.

In July 1947 Dr. J. J. Durrett, director of the Medical Advisory Division of the Federal Trade Commission, wrote to the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) asking them to look into Reich's claims about the health benefits of orgone.

Over the years the FDA interviewed physicians, Reich's students and his patients, asking about his use of orgone accumulators.

Christopher Hitchens wrote in 2011: " hat is extraordinary is the number of apparently level and careful people who, in pursuit of the better and bigger orgasm, were prepared to lower themselves into Reich's jerry-built ' orgone box ' and await blissful developments.

The concept of orgone belongs to Reich's later work, after he immigrated to the US.

Albert Einstein famously agreed to participate, but thought Reich's research lacked scientific detachment and experimental rigor ; he found Reich's demonstrations of " orgone heat " inconclusive.

Reich defied the order and was jailed, and the FDA took that opportunity to destroy any of Reich's books which mentioned orgone, along with research materials and devices.

Stefan Müschenich, in his Master's thesis, demonstrated effects of orgone accumulators on test subjects in keeping with Reich's original descriptions, while subjects exposed to a known " dummy box " showed no such effects.

Some psychotherapists and psychologists practicing various kinds of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology have continued to use Reich's proposed emotional-release methods and character-analysis ideas, but use of orgone equipment is rare, limited mainly to therapists who have been trained in " Reichian " institutions such as the American College of Orgonomy.

At the time that Burroughs was writing, orgone accumulators were only available from Reich's Orgone Institute in New York, offered for a ten dollar per month donation.

It has been suggested that the orgasmatron was a parody of Reich's orgone accumulator.

Schwartz wrote three novels for Arco Press, one of which, the detective story Sword of Desire, won praise for its takeoff on Wilhelm Reich's orgone therapy, a popular psychotherapeutic technique used during the 1940s and 1950s.

* Wilhelm Reich's work with orgone, a physical energy he claimed to have discovered, contributed to his alienation from the psychiatric community and eventually to his jailing.

At the time and continuing today, other scientists and skeptics disputed Reich's claims that he had scientific evidence for the existence of orgone.

Author Christopher Turner has suggested that the orgasmatron was a parody of Wilhelm Reich's orgone accumulator.

After Reich's claimed discovery of orgone or life energy, vegetotherapy was accordingly adapted and succeeded by " psychiatric orgone therapy ".

The main source of Reich's attractiveness was not the orgone theory.

As to Reich's orgone theory, Edwards omitted it from the Encyclopedia article because " it is of no philosophical interest.

" After Edwards ' death, one of Reich's orgone accumulators was found in his apartment.

Inevitably, both the Bomber B and Amerika Bomber programs were victims of the continued emphasis of the Wehrmacht's insistence for the Luftwaffe to support the Army as its primary mission, as well as the increasingly devastating results of the RAF Bomber Command at night, and by 1943 the USAAF's Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces ' heavy bomber raids by daylight on the German aviation industry, which catastrophically diminished the Third Reich's overall aviation production capacity later in World War II.

The Third Reich's repressive nature and militarist tendencies were also well-known at the time.

Despite Nazi propaganda presenting all of the regions annexed as possessing significant German populations that wanted reunification with Germany, the Reich's statistics of late 1939 show that only 31, 000 out of 994, 092 people in the annexed Polish western territories were ethnic Germans.

Some suggest that Frank ( who turned against National Socialism after 1945 but remained an anti-Semitic fanatic ) made the claim that Hitler had Jewish ancestry as way of proving that Hitler was really a " Jew " and not an " Aryan "; and in this way, " proved " that the Third Reich's crimes were the work of the " Jewish " Hitler.

Besides Adolf Hitler himself, he and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk were the only members of the Third Reich's cabinet to serve continuously from Hitler's appointment as Chancellor until his death.

He concluded that Reich's control measures to prevent infection from airborne bacteria were not as foolproof as Reich believed.

Reich and another associate, Dr. Michael Silvert ( 1906 – 1958 ), were charged with contempt of court ; Silvert had been looking after the inventory in Reich's absence.

The FDA agents were not allowed to destroy them, only to supervise the destruction, so Reich's friends and his son Peter chopped them up with axes as the agents watched.

Reich's early work was based on the Freudian concept of the libido, though influenced by sociological understandings with which Freud disagreed but which were to some degree followed by other prominent theorists such as Herbert Marcuse and Carl Jung.

( University of Frankfurt ; similar Reichian slogans were scrawled on the walls of the Sorbonne, and in Berlin students threw copies of Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism ( 1933 ) at the police ).

One source gives a general estimate of over 200, 000 prisoners from more than 30 countries for the Third Reich's years, of whom two-thirds were political prisoners, including many Catholic priests, and nearly one-third were Jews.

In 1953, six years after Reich's death, van der Rohe ceded his rights and his name on the design to Knoll, knowing that his design patents were expired.

Plans were also made to import three million slavic peoples into Germany to work for twenty years on the Reich's building sites.

Thus, buildings like the Congress Hall in Nuremberg and the Volkshalle in Berlin, inspired by the Colosseum and the Pantheon, respectively, were not merely symbols of tradition, order and reliability, but signaled a far more sinister intention on the part of the autocrat who commissioned them: a return to Roman ethics, which recognized the natural right of a conqueror to enslave conquered peoples in the most literal sense of the word, a right already made manifest even within the sphere of architecture by the creation of concentration camps, whose inmates were forced to quarry the stone for the Reich's buildings.

Michael Nyman has pointed out that much of the charm of Steve Reich's early music had to do with perceptual phenomena that were not actually played, but resulted from subtleties in the phase-shifting process.

Others were more contemporary, such as the quote " come out to show dem " from Steve Reich's " Come Out " used in " Moonlight on Vermont ", or a melodic fragment from the Miles Davis recording of Concierto de Aranjuez used as the basis for the bridge of " Sugar ' n Spikes ".

Plecker commented upon the Third Reich's sterilization of 600 children in the Rhineland ( the so-called Rhineland Bastards, who were born of German women by black French Colonial fathers ): " I hope this work is complete and not one has been missed.

Shots of the incinerator in which Reich's books were burned in New York City are included.

The teachers in Bethlehem were financed by the Reich's government, so Nazi teachers also took over there.