Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what, you may well ask, has the death of these 94 elderly gentlemen to do with this most dubious of achievements? Well, the 94 are, unwittingly, the adoptive fathers of 94 perfect little replicas of der Führer, and now it is necessary, if you are to give the final nasty twist to their personalities, to replicate the great shaping experience of Hitler's adolescence-the death of the domineering father at age 65. A fairish number of "parents" are disposed of before Lieberman finally catches up with and confronts the wicked Mengele in a Pennsylvania farmhouse...
Collin has been seeking permission to demonstrate in the allwhite, working-class neighborhood for more than a year. After being thwarted by the city's requirement of a $60,000 bond to pay for any damage, the self-styled Führer shockingly decided to march instead in Skokie, a heavily Jewish suburb of 66,200 people, including several thousand survivors of Hitler's death camps. Skokie immediately invoked a series of ordinances to stop him, which were all overturned by state and federal courts...
...seemingly normal people who all too easily answer the call of a racist and fascist government. One of the show's principal characters is an intelligent lawyer and family man, Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), who rises in the SS by dreaming up "legal" justifications for the Führer's extermination program. We also meet doctors, technicians and clergymen who lend their aid to the Nazi cause. These characters, like the famous Nazi leaders who appear (Eichmann, Heydrich, Himmler), are played without German accents by such skilled actors as David Warner, Robert Stephens, T.P. McKenna and Ian Holm...
Goebbels clearly blames the Wehr-macht's generals for Germany's plight, accusing them of lacking imagination and leadership. "It is a shame that the Führer has so few respectable military men on his staff." His most venomous blasts are reserved for Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Goring. Demanding that "the Führer [turn] Goring into a man again," Goebbels exclaims: "Bemedaled idiots and vain perfumed coxcombs have no place in our war leadership." Thanks to Goring's uninterrupted record of incompetence, argues Goebbels, the Luftwaffe has failed to wield the air superiority essential for victory...
Even Hitler is not immune. Although Goebbels records frequently that "the sight of the Führer is always thrilling," he is growing impatient with the dictator's refusal to take advice. Particularly vexing is Hitler's reluctance to try to lift the country's faltering morale by broadcasting a speech. The propaganda chief reminds Hitler that in the dark hours after Dunkirk, Churchill rallied Britons with a moving address, as did Stalin during the attack on Moscow. Yet Hitler remains adamant, and a dejected Goebbels writes: "The Führer has an aversion to the microphone...