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...faces peer out from across four decades: a baleful Hitler brooding over his destiny, a grinning Goebbels with his new bride, slinky Fräulein in satin smirking over drinks in a Munich nightclub. There are samples of humor: anti-Jewish jokes along with bitter comments on the regime ("In Germany teeth are being pulled through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores...
...front pages of The Crimson in 1939, however, news of "The Real World" occupied more than one double column per issue. Almost every paper of that year reports a new crisis: January 15, 1939, Hitler marches into Prague; March 29, 1939, Franco claims victory over the Spanish Loyalists; September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. But on the inner pages of The Crimson, editorials urged strict neutrality and isolationism for the United States, and reviews and advertisements urged students to forget and to be frivolous. Ads for ballroom dancing lessons as well as special offers for "Tux or Tails...
...whole raveled sequence is the work of men desperate for an ending. It is also in bad taste, though it cannot stand comparison to Brooks' most egregious caper, the Springtime for Hitler number in The Producers. But goldarned if it doesn't work. Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls "authentic western gibberish...
Since Stalin had written them off, Hitler treated the Russians far more cruelly than other Allied prisoners...
...King Otto II of Hungary. Scion of one of the great European dynasties -along with the Bourbons, the Windsors and Hohenzollerns-Otto von Habsburg was exiled in 1919 with his then reigning father, Emperor Charles 1 of Austria (King Charles IV of Hungary). Before the Anschluss in 1938, Hitler offered to restore Otto to his throne if he would support Nazi ideology. He refused, and during World War II, when he lived in the U.S., he advised U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt on Central European affairs. Now a spry 66, he lives in a slightly seedy villa outside Munich, has written...