Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup poll disclosed that 45% of U.S. citizens believe that Hitler is still alive...
...whom Lanny is on good terms: Pierre Laval, Albert Einstein (they play Mozart sonatas for piano and violin), Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins ("May I call you Lanny?" says Harry), OSS Chief William J. Donovan, Admiral Darlan. Lanny is also, believe it or not, friendly with Hermann Goring and Adolf Hitler...
...Kracauer looks at German films for the answer to a hard historical question: Why did the Germans so readily accept Hitler? "Their strange preparedness for the Nazi creed," Dr. Kracauer has concluded, "must have originated in psychological dispositions stronger than any ideological scruples. The films of the pre-Hitler period shed no small light on the psychological situation...
...third period began with the crash of 1929 and the return of chaos. The German mind-and the German screen-once more became a battleground. But most of the battling was equivocal, half-blind, halfhearted-or forbidden by censors. And none of it stopped Hitler...
...Some pre-Hitler films sought out some tenable pattern for existence. Some escaped into serenely playful romantic comedies. Others advised submission and Christlike love (Dostoevsky was very popular in middle-class Germany). Still others-which were to furnish the Nazis with a theme-"combined passions and precipices," and celebrated the heroic but adolescent cult of mountain climbing...