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...Tell Goldhagen Award: to Mark Walker's "History of Science 129v: Nazi Physics," in which the 10,000 men of Harvard learn to be Hitler's Willing Electrocutioners...
Visiting Professor of German Eric Rentschler, of the University of California at Irvine, has compiled a varied reading list featuring recent works such as Holo-caust scholar Saul Friedlander's Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, dissecting the magic and myth that have shrouded recollections of Hitler in popular culture; Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective, analyzing President Reagan's 1985 controversial visit to a Holocaust cemetery; and Spielberg's Holocaust, a volume of essays analyzing the strengths and limitations of Schindler's List in bridging cinema and history...
Numerous films dealing with the Holocaust, including Schindler's List, The Producers and Our Hitler, will be shown...
DIED. GERDA CHRISTIAN, 83, Adolf Hitler's devoted secretary; in Dusseldorf, Germany. Christian was on hand at the Fuhrer's eleventh-hour wedding to Eva Braun and lunched with him before he committed suicide, but chose not to take the poison pills that Hitler reportedly gave her as a parting gift...
DIED. CHARLES WERNER, 88, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist; near Indianapolis, Ind. Werner sketched for the Indianapolis Star for 47 years, but his winning image was done for the Oklahoman. Drawn shortly after the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler in 1938, it proved sadly prophetic: a scroll marked NOBEL PEACE PRIZE lies beside a gravestone bearing the epitaph CZECHOSLOVAKIA...