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Chapter Overview
Indiana Jones finds deception on the front lines and in the bedroom dominating this sophisticated thought-provoking film. Indy addresses the moral ambiguities of leadership when confronted with win-at-any-cost military officials who have callous disregard for the lives of the men they command. The gut-wrenching horror of trench warfare, vividly depicted in harrowing battle scenes, is contrasted when Indy goes on leave in Paris and engages in a torrid affair with infamous spy Mata Hari. She shows him that love, like war, can also be fraught with deception, disillusionment and heartbreak.
Key Topics: | Battle of Verdun, Mata Hari, and espionage. |
Historic People: | Henri Philippe Petain—French general and later Premiere of France |
People and Topics
DescriptorThe German assault on the French town of Verdun was one of the toughest and bloodiest battles of WWI. France's leaders, desperate to split the powerful German army, devised a new battle plan that would evolve into the more deadly Battle of the Somme. BooksMartin, William. Verdun 1916: "They Shall Not Pass." Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2001. Mason, David. Verdun. Gloucestershire:The Windrush Press, 2000. Ousby, Ian. The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism. New York:Doubleday, 2002. Websites |
DescriptorDutch-born exotic dancer executed by the French for being a double-agent. Known for her close "connections" to high ranking officials on both sides of the war, it seemed possible that she was passing along important information. Mystery and conspiracy theories surround the story of Mata Hari to this day. BooksDarrow, Margaret H. French Women and the First World War. New York: Berg, 2000. Grayzel, Susan R. Women and the First World War. New York: Pearson Education Limited, 2002. Websites |
DescriptorPetain was a French general, commander, and hero of World War I. Serving in many capacities between wars, Petain's "fall from grace" began when he signed an armistice with Nazi Germany and gave up roughly three-fifths of France's territory in 1940. After the war Petain was sentenced to death for being a traitor, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Charles de Gaulle. BooksBruce, Robert B. Petain: Verdun to Vichy. Potomac Books, 2005. Atkin, Nicholas. Profiles in Power: Petain. New York: Longman, 1998. Websites |
DescriptorEspionage is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the originating party's permission or knowledge. At the beginning of World War I, espionage was a crude and often misunderstood resource. As the war progressed espionage grew to become a decisive and crafty part of warfare helping lead to the armistice in November, 1918 (i.e. Britain's deciphering of the Zimmermann Telegram). By the onset of the Cold War, espionage had come into its own and paved the way for the classic image of fictional, but sometimes very real, spies like James Bond. BooksMorton, James. Spies of the First World War: Under Cover for King and Kaiser. The National Archives, 2010. Owen, David. Hidden Secrets: The Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It. Firefly Books, 2002. Bungert, Heike et al. Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2003. Websites |
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Documentary Previews
Below you will find information about each documentary that supplements Demons of Deception.
Into the Furnace: The Battle of Verdun | They called Verdun the Meat Grinder. The Furnace. Hell. When the fighting died down, almost a year after it began, French and German armies were back where they started -- minus close to one million men. The Battle of Verdun came to symbolize the senseless slaughter of the First World War, but for the French, who won the war at enormous cost, it left a deeper and more personal mark. The soul of France was ripped out in the muddy trenches of Verdun. Produced and Written by Sharon Wood. |
Marshal Petain's Fall from Grace | In 1916, 60-year old General Henri Philippe Pétain, who'd been passed by for promotion most of his life, took charge of a horrific World War I battle that would mark France for generations. The Battle of Verdun, called the Meatgrinder, was the first in modern history where one army's goal was just to kill maximum numbers of the enemy. Amidst this death and destruction, Pétain came to life. Thirty years later, Pétain would go on trail, accused of treason at age 89. He had saved France once, on a First World War battlefield. But when his countrymen turned to him to save them again, as head of government during World War II, he failed spectacularly. Produced and Written by Sharon Wood. |
Flirting with Danger: The Fantasy of Mata Hari | A palpable tension held its grip on Paris in 1917. It was the third disastrous year of World War I. France was losing badly -- and looking for someone to blame. In mid-February, word spread through the city that one of the most famous women in Europe had been arrested and accused of spying for Germany -- France's enemy in the war. Her name was Mata Hari. Produced and Written by Jennifer Petrucelli. |
Reading the Enemy's Mind: Espionage in World War I | Over the course of the 20th century, the secretive government agencies and the spies who ran them would complete the transformation of espionage from an amateur activity to a full-time profession. Nations have come to rely on spies for protection from terrorists, other spies, and attacks by enemies. Secrecy keeps their activities out of sight until a rogue agent is caught using espionage for treasonous or greedy ends, or when their efforts to protect us fail. But as spy-tools grow more and more sophisticated, one thing is certain: espionage is here to stay. Produced and Written by Mark Page. |
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Indy Connections: Demons of Deception
Below are current event articles that relate to events, topics, and people found in Demons of Deception.
8 Famous People Who Missed the Lusitania
Smithsonian.com
5/2/2013
When the First World War began, in the summer of 1914, the Lusitania was among the most glamorous and celebrated ships in the world—at one time both the largest and fastest afloat. But the British passenger liner would earn a far more tragic place in history on May 7, 1915, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, with the loss of nearly 1,200 lives.
Rare World War I Images Found Inside Antique Camera By Photographer Anton Orlov
huffingtonpost.com
1/11/2013
A blogger passionate about historic photography techniques serendipitously found some old photos inside his newly-purchased camera. As in, World War I old. Last week, Anton Orlov of the Photo Palace blog was cleaning the Jumelle Belllieni stereoscopic camera that he'd bought at an antique store a few days prior, and found the images completely by accident. According to his blog, he opened the film chamber and saw the negatives on a stack of glass plates.
Disturbing Pathe footage from World War One reveals devastating effects of shell shock on soldiers as they were treated in pioneering Devon hospital
dailymail.co.uk
11/8/2012
Uncontrollable shaking, terrifying nightmares and severe convulsions were among the most devastating symptoms suffered by the many First World War soldiers who suffered shell shock. By the end of the war, more than 80,000 men who had endured the horrors of battle were struggling to return to normality. And here, disturbing footage compiled by British Pathé film archivists and released to MailOnline today, brings home the terrifying reality that for many the war never really ended. At the time, most shell shock victims were treated harshly and with little sympathy as their symptoms were not understood and they were seen as a sign of weakness. But at Newton Abbott's Seale Hayne in Devon, the approach was very different due to the revolutionary approach of a doctor called Arthur Hurst, an army major, who believed he could cure every shell shock victim.
Document Deep Dive: What Did the Zimmermann Telegram Say?
Smithsonian.com
8/21/2012
On January 17, 1917, British code breakers in Room 40, the cryptoanalysis office of Great Britain’s Naval Intelligence, intercepted a telegram from Germany. At first, they suspected the coded message was a routine communication. But, soon enough, the cryptologists found that what they held in their hands was a top-secret missive that would shift the tides of World War I. Chances are that you have studied the Zimmermann Telegram in a history class, but have you ever actually seen the coded message? German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent the diplomatic message to Heinrich von Eckardt, the German ambassador in Mexico City, instructing him to speak to the president of Mexico. He proposed that the two nations strike an alliance; if Mexico waged war against the United States, thereby distracting Americans from the conflict in Europe, Germany would lend support and help Mexico reclaim Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Hitler postcard found in World War I project
bbc.co.uk
5/2/2012
A previously unknown postcard sent by Adolf Hitler when he was a soldier in World War I has been uncovered in a European history project. Hitler's postcard, sent in 1916 when he was recovering from a war wound, was found in Munich, Germany. Oxford University is providing expert advice to the Europeana 1914-1918 project which runs history roadshows. When the postcard was identified, the university's Dr Stuart Lee said he "felt a shudder run through me". "I found it hard to believe that at a local event to record ordinary people's stories, I was seeing a previously unknown document in Hitler's own hand," said Dr Lee.
Closing the Pigeon Gap
Smithsonian.com
4/17/2012
At midnight on November 12, 1870, two French balloons, inflated with highly flammable coal gas and manned by desperate volunteers, took off from a site in Monmartre, the highest point in Paris. The balloons rose from a city besieged "the Franco-Prussian War had left Paris isolated, and the city had been hastily encircled by the Prussian Army" and they did so on an unlikely mission. They carried with them several dozen pigeons, gathered from lofts across the city, that were part of a last-ditch attempt to establish two-way communication between the capital and the French provisional government in Tours, 130 miles southwest.
The 'Pompeii' of the Western Front: Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell
dailymail.co.uk
2/10/2012
The bodies of 21 German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed. The men were part of a larger group of 34 who were buried alive when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in 1918, causing it to cave in. Thirteen bodies were recovered from the underground shelter, but the remaining men had to be left under a mountain of mud as it was too dangerous to retrieve them. Nearly a century later, French archaeologists stumbled upon the mass grave on the former Western Front in eastern France during excavation work for a road building project.
End of an era as last surviving First World War veteran dies just days before her 111th birthday
dailymail.co.uk
2/8/2012
The world's last surviving First World War veteran has died - marking the end of an era in British history. Florence Green, who joined the war effort in September 1918, when she was aged just 17, passed away in her sleep at a Norfolk care home just two weeks before her 111th birthday. The great-grandmother, who lived through all but 400 days of the 20th century, signed up to the Women's Royal Air Force two months before the end of the First World War. She was the last surviving person to have seen active service in the Great War following the death of British-born sailor Claude Choules in Australia last year.
Inside the real Birdsong tunnels: Never-before-seen images of the mines dug by British 'clay-kickers' under German lines in First World War
dailymail.co.uk
1/27/2012
Flanders fields today bears little sign of the four years of war that claimed so many thousands of lives and ravaged this small corner of the Western Front. But further down, deep below the surface there remains a constant reminder of the bravery and daring of the men who risked their lives for their country.
Peace on the Western Front, Goodwill in No Man's Land - The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
Smithsonian.com
12/23/2011
Even at the distance of a century, no war seems more terrible than World War I. In the four years between 1914 and 1918, it killed or wounded more than 25 million people, peculiarly horribly, and (in popular opinion, at least) for less apparent purpose than did any other war before or since. Yet there were still odd moments of joy and hope in the trenches of Flanders and France, and one of the most remarkable came during the first Christmas of the war, a few brief hours during which men from both sides on the Western Front laid down their arms, emerged from their trenches, and shared food, carols, games and comradeship.
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