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...BOTTOM LINE: A disturbing thriller imagines what might have been if Hitler had triumphed...
...ordinary war," says Sylvana Foa of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "We are hearing stories about families having to watch fathers and sons walk through minefields, and summary executions for the hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...
Showtime For Hitler...
...Busby Berkeley. Gymnasts flex, and one inverts himself into a handstand minutes long. A busty blond croons a pop tune. Then Nazi soldiers march in. No, it's not Broadway's Cabaret, but an even more genuine article, staged by Berlin's Theater des Westens to depict how Hitler's regime fused popular culture and propaganda. BERLIN CABARET, at Washington's Kennedy Center through this week, is gloriously mounted if scantily plotted. Its showy numbers evoke radio, pop music and the 1936 Olympics but focus on the movies, especially as seen by a Jewish actor turned exile and a matronly...
...secede. Then Milosevic sought to salvage a kind of Greater Serbia from the wreckage by encouraging Serb-populated regions of the breakaway republics to resist secession -- and providing the crude military means to do so. Around U.N. headquarters in New York City, some diplomats are reminded of the way Hitler used the supposed need to protect German minorities in Czechoslovakia as an excuse to subjugate those countries...