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...Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises in the SS by dreaming up "legal" justifications for the Führer's extermination program. We also meet doctors, technicians and clergymen who lend their aid to the Nazi cause. These characters, like the famous Nazi leaders who appear (Eichmann, Heydrich, Himmler), are played without German accents by such skilled actors as David Warner, Robert Stephens, T.P. McKenna and Ian Holm. They, too, invite audience identification-and so force us to wonder whether we might ever collaborate with an immoral government for the sake of opportunism and self-preservation...
...MARGARIDA'S WAY by Roberto Athayde When the letter E is reached on the hurricane list, the storm should be named Estelle. As the teacher of the play's title, Estelle Parsons portrays a woman of blistered paranoia and feverish sexual frustration who qualifies as a blackboard Himmler to an eighth-grade biology class...
According to this thesis, "Hitler's was unquestionably the authority behind the expulsion [of the Jews]; on whose initiative the grim procedures at the terminal stations of this miserable exodus were adopted, is arguable." Irving believes that Heinrich Himmler und the SS "pulled the wool over Hitler's eyes," keeping him in ignorance even while the gas chambers were working at capacity. It is also possible, the author argues, that the Führer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability...
...this seems extremely odd. On May 5, 1944, in proclaiming to an audience of German generals that he had solved the "Jewish problem," Himmler declared: "You can imagine how I felt executing this soldierly order issued to me, but I obediently complied and carried it out to the best of my convictions." Nowhere else, Irving claims, did Himmler hint at a "Führer order" behind the genocide. But Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, author of The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, argues that "Hitler had told his entourage to 'put as little down on paper as possible...
...plump wife did the shopping, and townspeople rarely saw or even thought about Peiper himself. Then, not long ago, Peiper, 61, made an application for a permanent-residence permit. A check of his background revealed that he had not only been an adjutant to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler but was the notorious commander of Combat Group Peiper, which had killed at least 350 American prisoners and Belgian civilians during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge. In the most infamous of his atrocities, the so-called Malmedy massacre, 86 American prisoners of war were shot down in a snow-covered Belgian...