Word: hitlered
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...reminiscent of a Latin American caudillo, complete with ceremonial-sashed portrait displayed in all police stations and paternalistic rhetoric reminiscent of Peron or Pinochet. Yet his major internal opposition comes from an even more extreme group: the Croatian Party of Rights, which unabashedly honors the memory of the fascist, Hitler-backed state that flourished briefly during World...
...least temporarily abandoned. The reason had little to do with the music and a lot to do with the composer and the anti-Semitic intellectual company he kept, both while he was alive and after his death: Father Jahn, Count Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Alfred Rosenberg and Adolf Hitler...
Fighting words in any language. Still, Wagner should not be blamed for Hitler's final solution, even though it is true that the Fuhrer -- who saw himself as a Siegfried-like embodiment of the Wagnerian Teutonic ideal -- was lionized annually at the Bayreuth festival and Wagner's music sometimes sounded in the death camps. That says more about Hitler than Wagner -- who had by then been dead for a half-century and was not responsible for the misuse of his works by the Nazis...
...World War II Germany, a Jewish adolescent survives by becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. Writer-director Agnieszka Holland based her miraculously jaunty, profoundly moving portrayal of the will to live on the true story of one Solomon Perel. And Marco Hofschneider plays him with a stunned guile that goes beyond acting...
...news, and specifically about who, for better or worse, had the most impact on the course of history in a given year. The list includes people with indisputable credentials for goodness, like Mahatma Gandhi and the American G.I., but also some of the century's worst despots, like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin...