Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler spoke his mind to a group of German generals al his secret headquarters. According to a stenographic transcript found last week in the resort town of Wiesbaden, the Führer said...
...Latest Hitler rumor, circulating in Bavaria: he is alive and plotting another war against the western Allies-in collaboration with Generalissimo Stalin...
...Actually, Hitler often saw movies in private showings during the war's first years...
...Hitler's taste in art (a big batch of samples has reached the U.S.) was despised by critics, but it was embarrassingly like the taste of the U.S. public. He admired the cloying cleanliness of calendar pictures and the photographic homespun (characteristic of Saturday Evening Post covers), contemned "modern" art. (His taste got no further than 1870.) In sculpture, he went for ferocious eagles and muscular nudes which lacked the serenity of their Greek models. He thought buildings should be monumental in the neo-Roman postoffice style, but more severely simple than the U.S. variety...
...Nazi art which ap peared this week in the October Magazine of Art were brought to the U.S. by a re turned G.I., Lincoln Kirstein, balletomane son of the late board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store. Along with the stuff that was just what Hitler ordered was some he didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger's Glorious...