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...fascism--for that matter, what made Germany receptive to the Hohenzollerns and Bismarck? Is there something in German culture that perennially leads to autocratic aggression? These are the questions which the artists of the Weimar Republic, that butterfly-fragile democracy which governed Germany between World War I and Hitler's ascension in 1933, were beginning to ask themselves; and they are also the questions which we inevitably ask of Weimar...
...above pieces are actually among the least political of the exhibition. A number of photo montages, primarily by John Heartfield and El Lissitzky, take up Soviet propaganda, Hitler and Weimar politics with a style that anticipates, but far from outshines, contemporary artists like Barbara Kruger. Their montages are busy, uninviting, but important. Heartfield's One must have a special disposition toward suicide. It illustrates the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg by the Freikorps--an event which put an end to any realistic hopes for a Communist revolution in the Weimar Republic. Heartfield lays Liebknecht's mordant head among...
...million hogs, the 4 million sheep and 7 billion chickens killed last year, to say nothing of the animals slaughtered to give us our belts, shoes, wallets, handbags, and fur coats. The saint, of course, may forsake meat and leather. But virtue always comes with its ironies. Hitler was a vegetarian...
...state that there is a "conception held by the general public that the Scandinavians were supporters of Hitler." In truth, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden each participated in humanitarian efforts to save the lives of many thousands of Scandinavian Jews in their respective nations. There also were significant resistance movements in each country...
...state. "The legal issues at stake here have global implications," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The argument being presented is that a crime against humanity cannot enjoy immunity in any circumstances. Setting that precedent would pardon dictators from Idi Amin to Karadzic -- it even would have pardoned Hitler." Meanwhile, France, Switzerland and Sweden are all completing their own extradition requests. Take a number and stand in line...