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...London, the cameras are turning on Hitler-The Last Ten Days, and Sir Alec Guinness, complete with toothbrush mustache and special black hair piece, is playing the Führer. A spoof on Hitler's return, starring Peter Sellers, goes into production next year. Also scheduled is a film based on Inside the Third Reich, the autobiography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect. Then there are the Hitler books, at least eight published so far this year in the U.S. British television in recent months has unreeled three major reports on the Nazi era, and Carl Foreman...
...that really Adolf Hitler taking a stroll in London's Hyde Park? "It's astonishing how many people don't even remember what he looked like," said Sir Alee Guinness, who is playing the Führer in a movie called Hitler: The Last Ten Days. "When we photographed some tests in Hyde Park, with me all made up and in uniform, not a soul turned around. But the taxi drivers know. I had one who kept looking at me. When I got out, he went round the block and came back again. He stopped alongside...
...movement tends to bring together in a radiant union all the qualities which guide mankind to perfection." The general, as president of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1928, wrote: "Nothing is more characteristic of the genius of the American people than is their genius for athletics." The Führer envisaged the 1936 Games in Berlin -the last time they were held on German soil-as a showcase for the Third Reich and Aryan racial supremacy...
...Papen contrived Schleicher's fall and convinced Hindenburg that the way to neutralize Nazi power was to give Hitler the chancellorship and then surround him with conservative ministers. Within a year Schleicher had been killed and Germany belonged to the Führer...
...shock to be reminded that until someone suggested Mein Kampf as a title, Adolf Hitler wanted to call his book Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. Everybody needs an editor. Besides, the FÜhrer was that kind of fellow. But T.S. Eliot! Could that austere poet's most celebrated work actually have sprung from sweaty sessions with pencil stubs and mutual gropings after the mot juste! It has always been painful to imagine, even though for 50 or so years Ezra Pound has been acknowledged as much more than The Waste Land...