Word: heils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the finest achievement is the depiction of the Germans. In most movies or TV shows that describe the Third Reich, the Nazis are heel-clicking automatons who run around yelling "Heil Hitler!" The effect of such theatrics is to rob genocide of its meaning; audiences can dismiss the Final Solution as the creation of a few madmen. In Holocaust, most Nazis are seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises...
...series of word-pictures--of Jed's mistress tapping her sandal hypnotically in the glow of the firelight, of his wife, dying of cancer, lifting up her bony hand to him in pain and entreaty, of Jed himself holding a gun to the head of a German officer sneering "Heil Hitler!" The lingering force of these images is linked to the mode of narration; Jed tells his story--an odyssey which takes him from Dugton, Alabamaa to academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like...
...Arlington, Va., the party has some 400 members. California Reich, a documentary produced last year, showed neighborly-looking people pledging allegiance to "the immortal leader of my race, to the vision for which he stands, the hope and future of Aryan man," and smiling proudly as their children gave Heil Hitler! salutes. Explains Producer Walter Parkes, who won an Oscar nomination for his film: "The Nazi image is a great boost for someone with little selfesteem. The party is full of marginal types, getting together with other marginal types...
...teenager, Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister, spent summers in Germany with the family of a minister who was a dedicated Nazi. In 1935 Bergman went with his hosts to a party rally in Weimar. Caught up in the frenzy that greeted Hitler's arrival, he shouted "Heil Hitler!" along with the rest. He admits: "I was a real little Nazi when I returned to Sweden after that summer, but the infatuation was short-lived. The period fascinates me; I knew I'd do a film about it some...
...extraordinary 45-minute television feature a month after Anneliese's death, Father Renz claimed that the six evil spirits attacking her included Lucifer, Nero, Judas, Cain and Adolf Hitler -who used to shout "Heil!" through Anneliese's voice. Renz even played one of the 43 tapes made during the exorcisms so that listeners could hear Anneliese growling obscenities, screaming guttural curses and raving wildly. Only death finally released her. Said Renz: "The devil does not reside in a dead body...