Word: fuehrer
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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...
...that the Ultra team had learned to expect. Every time things went wrong, Winterbotham notes, "Hitler invariably took remote control, which was a bonus, since most of his signals went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would have stayed...
...career, Nixon's most laudable quality was his unwavering loyalty to his political (and non-political) cronies. But as the recent White House shake-up has shown, even this unfailing loyalty is no longer sacrosanct. When Nixon's White House gestapo could no longer cover up for itself, der fuehrer exterminated the vermin...