Word: fuehrer
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...Berlin's Thierschastrasse during the early 1930s might have heard a tune to warm his heart. Inside, in the apartment of Adolf Hitler, Ernst Hanfstaengl would sit at the piano and hammer out the melody of "Harvardiana." But the passer-by might wonder at the lyrics; To honor der Fuehrer, Hanfy had changed the words a bit. Instead of the traditional repeating "Harvard" chorus, Hanfstaengl would bellow out "Sieg Heil" again and again...
...passage from the preface of the book states, "in view of the difficult problems involved (in the relations between Poles and Germans), the desire and striving of the Fuehrer to create stable national relationships in (Poland) appears in its real greatness...
This superficial political analysis did not damage the production too much, because each of these inter-skit presentations is brief. But some of the longer skits had more serious problems. One, entitled "The Fuehrer's New Clothes," attempted to equate the 1930's Nazi persecution of the Communists with present-day West German discrimination against leftists. The argument seemed to depend mainly on the use of German accents by the actors...
...only exception is Hitler. Speer's thoughts turn time after time to his Fuehrer; he even dreams about Hitler, years after the end of the war. But he has few new insights into Hitler's character. In 1960, he arrives at the conclusion that "hatred of the Jews was Hitler's central conviction. The man I served was not a well-meaning tribune of the masses, not the rebuilder of German grandeur, and also not the failed conqueror of a vast European empire, but a pathological hater." Other observations are more original and interesting, such as his discussion of Hitler...
Triumph of the Will. Last weekend a friend of mine sitting in on this at the midnight show, sometime between the time when Rudolph Hess speaks and when der Fuehrer ascends the rostrum. Two young men in platforms lounging in front of him. One turns to the other "I don't mind the Nazi killing millions of people, but boring me for hours..." At the Orson Welles...