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...present revival of interest in Hitler signifies anything beyond kinky fashion and souvenir hunting - the sort of impulse that, for years, has retained the jackboot and Hakenkreuz as essential furniture in the theater of sado masochistic imagination - it means that a degree of impatience with the demonic image has set in. What concerns the modern audience, and made Speer's memoir the bestseller it deservedly was, is not Hitler's myth but his documentary truth. What, beginning with his humanness, did he have in common with the people around us and with ourselves? What on earth...
...Australian newcomer named Philippe Mora, it began as a research job on the copious surviving archives of Nazi film after Lieberson bought the rights to Speer's Inside the Third Reich. But what altered the film makers' intentions was the discovery, by Film Historian Lutz Becker, of Hitler's own home movies - some five hours of Agfacolor stock, shot mainly by Eva Braun and her friends, of the Führer and his court relaxing (if that is the word) in his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg. The film had been lying un noticed in the U.S. Marine...
Admittedly, the situation resembles the old Sherlock Holmes solution of a crime because of the curious behavior of the dog in the nighttime - curious because the dog did nothing in the nighttime. The banality of this view of Hitler at ease is the message, as always with home movies. Most of Swastika consists of previously unused material from professional Nazi films, mainly propaganda and newsreel, tightly edited together so as to present the illusion that Mora had sent a documentary team 40 years back into the Reich. The home movies make it seem as though Andy Warhol tagged along...
...Teuton waving his hairy green hat appreciatively at an Alp might be any German tourist, but - you realize with a start - it is Martin Bormann. There are scraps of conversation, no more. Hitler scans a speech manuscript through a large magnifying glass on the breezy terrace with Speer looking over his shoulder. He looks up. "Very interesting," the Führer remarks, in a line straight out of Laugh-In. Hitler's doctor appears; he describes how he has come to suspect a link between smoking and lung cancer. "Disgusting," the patient snaps. Nobody is at ease with...
...Life & Death of Adolf Hitler, Payne...