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...Public Opinion Foundation last month, 70% of those surveyed regarded the U.S. as a hostile country. And earlier this month, the U.S. embassy in Moscow received an e-mail in broken English that read: "We are to kill all the foreigners we see, marking the birthday of Hitler [April 20]. Send your citizens back - or else. Russia is for Russians." It was signed: "Ivan, President, Skinhead Group of Russia." The embassy took the threat seriously enough to alert all Americans in Russia to the increased risk over the next several weeks...
...members of extremist and neo-Nazi groups, Hitler's birthday has become an occasion for venting their anger. And not just against the Americans. On April 20 last year, Moscow skinheads launched attacks that left a young Chechen killed and more than a dozen badly injured. Why do they do it? "Because [Hitler] gave us the holy idea of National Socialism," says Zakhar...
Engel, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, is using a depressingly familiar defense: he was just following orders direct from Adolf Hitler. Such claims have been used - almost always without success - by countless accused Nazis since the end of World War II. Engel claimed that after the cinema blast, an angry Hitler issued an order to "repay attacks resulting in death" by executing 10 people for every German who died. "For me to have resisted would have been impossible," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "Imagine, if you can, how you would have resisted...
...tour of Mitte begins at the stately parliament building known as the Reichstag. A suspicious fire gutted the building in 1933, prompting Hitler to take dictatorial powers. The Reichstag has been rebuilt entirely, topped by British architect Norman Foster's breathtaking dome. The parliament is off limits to visitors, but it's possible to climb to the top of the dome for fantastic views of the city. A short walk from the Reichstag is the Brandenburg Gate. Built in 1791 to look like the Propylaea of the Acropolis, the gate became a symbol of the Berlin Wall, which was first...
...DIED. BILLY WILDER, 95, sharply satirical screenwriter, prolific filmmaker and winner of six Academy Awards; in Los Angeles. Born in a village in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wilder landed in Hollywood in 1934 as part of an influx of German EmigrEs fleeing Hitler's accession. Nominated for 12 Oscars as a writer, Wilder is best remembered for films like Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. DIED. MILTON BERLE, 93, towering personality of the small screen who traded a life in vaudeville to become TV's first star with his 1948 debut in Texaco...