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...really bad. The ideas must have sounded good on the drawing board, but they come off as silly and boring when performed. Professors sing lectures on medieval agrarian history against a background of rock music; a panel of experts is asked, "What changes would you make if you were Hitler?"; and a pet shop specializes in turning dogs into cats, fish and parakeets with just a little scissors-and-paste...
...considered breaking away as Rhodesia did from Britain in 1965; they too like Spinola because he advocates greater autonomy for the provinces. Moreover, Spinola cannot be dismissed as just another left-wing critic. During the Spanish civil war he fought as a volunteer for Franco, and then went to Hitler's Third Reich for military training...
Reich's debut this month is a political as well as a publishing event in West Germany. As the first home-grown editorial effort to re-create the mood and experiences that led to Hitler's power-grab, Reich has unsettled Germans of all political persuasions. Its editor, Christian Zentner, says that over the next two years the magazine will attempt to explain how "the nation of poets and philosophers" could become "a nation of murderers and criminals." But many Germans apparently still care less about that question than about keeping the skeleton of the Nazi era closeted...
...fact, Reich in its first 48-page issue unsparingly documents the truth that Nazism, while seeded in the depths of Germany's post-World War I economic depression, bloomed in the resurgence of nationalistic pride created by Hitler and his henchmen. Symbols of that pride dominate photographs illustrating actual news dispatches of the day or adorning a 1932-33 chronicle of Germany's cultural and sporting life: Boxer Max Schmeling fighting America's Jack Sharkey for the world's heavyweight title; Marlene Dietrich posing in a scene from one of her early film triumphs...
...distorts Nazism's objectives. The magazine's advance promotional blitz was particularly upsetting. It featured decorative political posters of the '30s, tiny swastika flags, and throwaway recordings of Nazi party speeches. That tactic, charged a West Berlin court prosecutor, tended to glorify the era, suggesting that Hitler's Reich was fun. After a Berlin court agreed, police raided newsstands throughout the country and confiscated the gewgaws. West German television stations barred Reich commercials when they appeared to stress the frivolous side of Nazism's adolescence. Reich's Hamburg publisher, John Jahr Co., then agreed...