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After 40 years in isolation in Berlin, a self-proclaimed "Harvard leftist" and Communist activist has returned to the United States to attend his 45th Harvard reunion...
Wechsler saved the details of his flight for a forthcoming book on the subject, but he said in a phone interview from Berlin that he left Bavaria because he became "panic stricken and frightened" at the prospect of being sent to Fort Leavenworth, a notorious military prison...
Riefenstahl, witty, athletic and argumentative at age 91, is best known for her "Triumph of the Will," a film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg, and "Olympia," a documentary film of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin...
...Studios in Berlin, where many German silent films were made, a dispute flares up when Muller asks Riefenstahl to walk and talk at the same time. In another scene at Nuremberg, Riefenstahl grabs Muller's shoulders and shakes...
When history delivers something that looks like a miracle (the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example, or the collapse of Soviet communism), the mind experiences a kind of electricity, the thrill of beginning, of seeing a new world. That was what it felt like last week to watch South Africa. Here was a spectacle of true transformation...