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...that really Adolf Hitler taking a stroll in London's Hyde Park? "It's astonishing how many people don't even remember what he looked like," said Sir Alee Guinness, who is playing the Führer in a movie called Hitler: The Last Ten Days. "When we photographed some tests in Hyde Park, with me all made up and in uniform, not a soul turned around. But the taxi drivers know. I had one who kept looking at me. When I got out, he went round the block and came back again. He stopped alongside...
...audience began to stiffen when Act II brought on a male chorus dressed in black uniforms, strongly resembling Hitler's SS troops. As Tannhäuser lay dying at the end and cries of "Hallelujah!" rang out, 345 klieg lights lit up the theater, and instead of pilgrims, the audience saw a stageful of workmen glaring at them, raising clenched fists like a mob in a social protest play...
...many men-from France's Baron Pierre de Coubertin to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to Adolf Hitler-have tried to make too much of the Olympic Games. The baron, father of the modern Games, once said: "The Olympic movement tends to bring together in a radiant union all the qualities which guide mankind to perfection." The general, as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1928, wrote: "Nothing is more characteristic of the genius of the American people than is their genius for athletics." The Führer envisaged the 1936 Games in Berlin -the last time...
...athletics is highly debatable at best. Some measure of chauvinism is understandable, but to interpret physical feats as evidence of sociological or ideological superiority is as absurd as trying to settle a United Nations debate with a foot race up First Avenue. And the tactic can backfire. At Berlin, Hitler had to sit and squirm as an American black-the legendary Jesse Owens-clearly outshone Germany's Nordic "supermen" to win gold medals in four events. Still, rampant nationalism continues to mock the purported ideals of the Olympics. Since 1952 the focus has been mainly on whether...
...Jesse Birnbaum, is an overgrown village that likes to think of itself as Germany's secret capital, a city of museums (25) and music (three symphony orchestras, a 48-week opera season), with memories of Richard Strauss and Wagner, Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II-and Adolf Hitler. Vignettes from Birnbaum's recent visit there...