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...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...
...heroic portraits of Adolf Hitler that decorated German government offices during the Nazi regime were mainly slavish copies of those done by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's official photographer. Last week, 37 years after the German leader's death, the only known candid live portrait of the Fuhrer, carefully hidden from the Gestapo by the worried artist Klaus Richter, went on display at the Berlin Museum for the first time. Richter caught Hitler in profile almost by accident in 1941, while making sketches for a commissioned portrait of Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring. The German leader suddenly appeared with Benito...
Taylor takes the tack that Haider is a victim of flattery, subtle intimidation and an inordinate love of the uniform. Out of the emotional stress accompanying his mother's senile dementia, Haider has written a pro-euthanasia novel. It conies to the Fuhrer's attention, and Haider admits to "the surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolf s shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...
...whose Williams College classmates voted him "Class Griper" and "Shovels It Fastest" in his college yearbook? A man who tried to explain away his $100,000 in illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign as an oversight? A man whose employees privately call him the "Fuhrer...
...could happen again." It is all too easy for him to recollect Hitler's view of the Final Solution: "This is a chapter of our history that has never been written and never is to be written." Genocide is an expensive attempt to give the lie to the Fuhrer, to write and rewrite that chapter, recalling everything and forgiving nothing. But in this film, memory and ambition ultimately collide. The 6 million deserve more than dire prophecy and less than an overproduction...