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The South African government may lift a 1942 ban and allow the showing of a film made for Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. Reuters reported that “Ohm Paul Krueger” (“Uncle Paul Krueger”), a film Goebbels commissioned to discredit Britain during World War II, will be reviewed today by South African censors and could be screened throughout South Africa. Johannesburg theater owner Italo Bernicchi, who received special permission to show the film, said it had not been drawing large audiences but he expected large turnouts in right-wing towns if the censors gave the go-ahead for countrywide viewing.