Word: fuhrer
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...when the dream was blighted, Hitler declared that "worker equals artist" and instituted the rule of mediocrity. "He legitimized trash," the ventriloquist says. And we are reminded that Hitler was a failed painter and a man who enjoyed the cinema. "He would watch the latest films from America," the Fuhrer's projectionist says. "He loved John Wayne. But when the war started he stopped watching the films. He only watched the newsreels, before they were shown to the public...
...spared in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour misty epic, Our Hitler, least of all the audience. Syberberg seeks to resurrect Hitler and pit him against the world he left behind--a filmic judgment day for Der Fuhrer--and the audience is forced to look into its own eyes. Confusion. No connections. No conclusions. "The results are exhilarating, confounding, and not at all closeended," critic David A. Rosse from the University of California at Berkeley, correctly pointed out. Ultimately, your judgment of Syberberg's Hitler hinges on how you judge your most intimate self...
...season's troubles started when Frank Collin, self-styled Fuhrer of a tiny Chicago-based Nazi splinter group called the National Socialist Party of America, announced plans for a May 1 parade through Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb north of Chicago. Some 7,000 survivors of World War II Nazi concentration camps live in the village. Skokie authorities swiftly banned the demonstration, and militant Jewish Defense League spokesmen promised to keep the Nazi marchers out with force...
...itself." He made studied verbal analogies (for example, heil, whole; heilig, holy; and heilen, to heal). His days as a professor and rector at Freiburg University revealed a power worship that has disfigured German philosophy since the days of Hegel. Sympathetic to Naziism, he declared in 1933: "The Fuhrer himself and alone is the German reality present and future...
...Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than his Patton. Best of all, Peter Sellers managed to create Henry Kissinger five years before Nelson Rockefeller did. The climactic line of the film, "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk again" comes the closest I can think of to the epitaph for the twentieth century. Sellers' other characters, Col. Mandrake, the British exchange officer, and the President, are completely on target. Kubrick's films are all good, but this is his closest approach to perfection. Of course, since...