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According to Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, that is how Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun died in Berlin in 1945. Their bizarre deaths came as no surprise to Psychoanalyst Walter Langer. Two years earlier, he had predicted the German leader's suicide in a secret study prepared at the request of the Office of Strategic Services. Intended as an aid to Allied war planners, the study was classified "secret" and tucked away in the National Archives for years. Now it has been declassified and will be published this week as The Mind of Adolf Hitler (Basic Books...
These ills did not originate with the XX Olympiad. Since the Games were revived in 1896, they have too often been used for purposes that stray far from their professed ideal. Adolf Hitler made the 1936 Berlin Games a platform for virulent Nazi propaganda; in 1952 the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. began turning the Olympics into a cold war theater. Since then even the referees, who can do a lot of subjective mischief in judgment events like boxing, have often been chosen more for their ideological loyalty than for their skill. As proved by Munich 1972, the Games have become...
There was a touch of Teutonic pomp, but the circumstances were markedly different from those of 1936. The colors were cool, breezy pastels, not the strident Nazi red and black; it was Willy Brandt's gemütlich Munich, not Hitler's dark Berlin. With a fanfare of Alpine horns and a gaudy parade of 12,000 athletes from 124 nations, the XX Olympiad opened last week in an 80,000-capacity, acrylic, glass-covered stadium that stands on the site where Neville Chamberlain landed in 1938 to establish "peace in our time...
...athletes would agree. Unreasonably censorious and sometimes inconsistent in his decisions, Brundage has in fact been a controversial influence on the games for nearly half of their modern history. As chief of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1936, he dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett from the team sent to Berlin because she drank champagne during the Atlantic crossing. The same year, he countered attacks on Nazi anti-Semitism by issuing a brochure that argued that "the persecution of minority peoples is as old as history." Since becoming I.O.C. president in 1952, Brundage has, if anything, grown more stern and less...
Ever since his German refugee parents took him, at age nine, from Berlin to America, Previn has been feeding on music. When his father had friends in for chamber music, Andre sat under the piano and listened. Later he got up and sat at the keyboard, learning to play symphonies in piano transcriptions. He also studied composing and conducting. At 16, he was scoring at MGM-with starlets as well as music. With his second wife Dory, he wrote pop hits. He collected Oscars and money...