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Richard Corliss states in his review of the movie Defiance, "Not all Jews under Hitler's boot were passive victims" [Dec. 8]. Almost all of Hitler's Jewish victims were civilians with families. They had no army, let alone guns, and were often betrayed by their local government. The vast majority had no chance to fight and nothing to fight with and probably thought they would live to see their families again, not knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims"--even to refute such a notion-- is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have...
...young Cary Grant? 3. “Valkyrie”—Leave it to a can’t-miss duo like Tom Cruise and the guy who made “Superman Returns” to think that an historical thriller about the assassination plot against Hitler would fill seats come Christmas time. I wonder if it occurred to the coked-up brainstorming team who pushed for the film’s reported $90 million budget that a thriller should evoke something in the neighborhood of suspense. “Do they kill Hitler...
...pictures of Adolf Hitler's rise to power...
Hoffmann said he has spent his academic tenure coming to terms with “the most traumatic period of my life,” when he and his mother escaped Austria for France, where they saw Hitler gradually take power. Forced to flee Paris, he said they “never knew whether we’d be alive...
...Beyond his journalistic facility, Cooke seemed to have a diviner's rod that led him toward powerful men and big stories. In 1931, on vacation in Munich, he stumbled onto a street speech by a local spellbinder: Adolf Hitler, two years before the Third Reich came to power. In 1936 Cooke wandered into an alley during Harvard's tricentennial celebration and saw two Secret Service men lean into a limo and lift out the polio-stricken "Franklin Roosevelt, inert as a sack of potatoes." In 1968 he was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, and filed...