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...among Americans for a President's "charisma." Wrote Valenti: "The only two modern figures who could be truly said to possess magic charisma, whose voice and person cast a spell over their countrymen and whom people followed blindly and exultingly were the two largest tyrants of our age, Hitler and Mussolini." Somehow, he overlooked such charismatic non-tyrants as Churchill and Gandhi, Roosevelt and De Gaulle-and for that matter, John Kennedy...
...Hitler's Rage. Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin, syndicated by Sports Network Inc., stirringly recalled the Summer Olympics of 1936. There was chilling footage showing more than 100,000 fans hailing Adolf Hitler as the games were opened. The test was on for the Nazis' myth of the master race. Closeups caught the Führer clucking with pleasure as his Aryans competed in the qualifying heats against the U.S. team with its Negro stars. But then in the finals, as Owens, the Alabama sharecropper's son, won one, two, three and finally four gold medals...
JESSE OWENS RETURNS TO BERLIN (Sports Network). Recollection of the dramatic 1936 Olympics and its sullen host Hitler, as U.S. Negro Trackman Owens wins four gold medals...
Kuhn assembled what some Germanic art authorities have called "the finest collection of twentiethcentury German art in the world," Coolidge said. Kuhn was an opportunist: When Hitler banned "immoral" works by Kirschner and Heckel, Kuhn obtained them when they appeared on the New York market...
...offered a grim reminder, for Rise and Fall displayed the sins of the Third Reich with chilling clarity. Drawing upon 2,000,000 feet of old German newsreels and propaganda movies, and newly filmed interviews with some of Hitler's former cronies, Rise and Fall recreated the era in indelible detail. Who could turn away as the cunning on Hitler's face changed to frenzy while he ranted before a monster rally? Who could miss the dedication of his followers as they cleared Germany's streets of Hitler's political and ideological enemies, or as they...