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The swinging sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller were banned in Nazi Germany as Allied decadence, but Hitler's henchmen were less punctilious when it came to propaganda. West German Jazz Historian Rainer Lotz this week releases his second album titled German Propaganda Jazz. The music was recorded in...
One of the happiest additions to the birthday celebrations is the publication of a charming book titled Superman at Fifty: The Persistence of a Legend, edited by Dennis Dooley and Gary Engle (Octavia Press; $16.95), which provides nostalgics with a cotton-candy dose of Superman lore. Like the proposition that...
As Hunt says, Ui is both serious and funny. And as his sudden demise suggests, it is not subtle. Almost all the characters are none-too-thinly veiled portraits of real figures in the Nazi hierarchy. Hitler becomes Arturo Ui (Chad Raphael), Ernst Roehm becomes Ernesto Roma (Jeff Alexander), Hermann...
The opposition to Arroyo solidified last week, after he appeared before the Philippine Congress to defend the government's performance in quelling the last mutiny. Though he had planned to ask Congress to close ranks behind Aquino, Arroyo instead spent three hours berating the military, the Roman Catholic Church and...
While unlikely to revolutionize modern understanding of the Third Reich, Goebbels' diaries are certain to prove of great historical interest. "After 1945, people liked to think that Hitler himself was the bearer of guilt for everything," says History Professor Hans Mommsen of the University of the Ruhr in Bochum. "Books...