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...America of the New Deal era was still isolationist, justifiably preoccupied with its own enormous problems, but this was a condition that could not last. Adolf Hitler had also put the unemployed to work at building superhighways and other showy projects, but now his obsession was to acquire new territory. In 1938 came the Nazis' Anschluss of Austria; in 1938 Hitler browbeat the British and French into letting him seize the Sudentenland area of Czechoslovakia in exchange for a false promise of "peace in our time." In 1938 too the Japanese pushed southward across China and captured Canton...
...dictator is in preference to a paralytic stroke," said Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "If this country ever needed a Mussolini, it needs one now," declared Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania. In Europe, indeed, the week of Roosevelt's Inauguration was the same week in which Adolf Hitler used the Reichstag fire to win emergency powers and suppress all opponents of his New Order for Germany...
...Polish-born Jew and longtime Communist who in the late 1930s and early 1940s led a 290-member spy network for the Soviet Union that was known to the Germans as the "Red Orchestra"; in Jerusalem. The Nazis smashed the Red Orchestra in 1942-43, and one Hitler aide later estimated that the espionage ring had cost 200,000 German soldiers' lives. At war's end, Trepper was rewarded by the Soviets with a ten-year prison term. Released in 1955, he returned to Poland and was permitted in 1974 to emigrate to Israel...
...conversation turns to "a Jackson Pollack painting, bursting forth," then modulates to Hitler's Nuremberg rallies, and then to William Blake's world and to Auschwitz and Dachau. This is the sort of experience Andre seeks, excitement and fury taken to the highest pitch possible...
System or chaos, Coppola is never dull. Two years ago, he had New York cinephiles atwitter with his presentation of the seven-hour Our Hitler. Last January he put a refurbished version of Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoleon into the Music Hall, and played host to not just a celebrity party but an exhilarating film experience. After the Napoleon coup, movie wags were wondering which charismatic dictator Coppola would bring to New York in early 1982. Now they know. Frederic Forrest may be romancing Nastassia Kinski onscreen, but center stage will again be occupied...