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...Soviet Union is a country that has had totalitarian rule for many hundreds of years, and what a relatively small ruling class there might do can be very different from what a democratic country can decide to do. The rulers in the Kremlin are as eager as Hitler was to get power over the whole world. But unlike Hitler they are not gamblers. If we can put up a missile defense that makes their attack dubious, chances are they will never try the attack. We can avoid a third world war, but only if strength is in the hands...
...Adolf Hitler were finally found alive in the jungles of Brazil, what should be done with him? If he were brought into the room, what would you do? Would you rise...
Cast in the "American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty...
...mustache of Adolf Hitler...
Given Wiesenthal's experience-he and his wife are the only survivors of families that numbered 89 before the Holocaust-his still raw emotions are understandable. "Believe me," he warns, "it could happen again." It is all too easy for him to recollect Hitler's view of the Final Solution: "This is a chapter of our history that has never been written and never is to be written." Genocide is an expensive attempt to give the lie to the Fuhrer, to write and rewrite that chapter, recalling everything and forgiving nothing. But in this film, memory and ambition...