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...first, German audiences watch with embarrassed distaste, now snickering at the wild gesticulations of the early Hitler, now clearing throats in unison as Rudolf Hess shouts: "My Fűhrer, you are Germany. When you judge, the people judge." The shock comes with 1942, as the film moves on to footage shot by SS cameramen in the Warsaw ghetto and found by Leiser in mislabeled cans in East German archives (the Red government let him buy the ten reels for $8 a meter...
...built a Merzbau in Hannover, where disciples could touch a rag that Schwitters asserted was Goethe's stocking, and a bottle of yellow liquid that he called the "urine of the Master." When Adolf Hitler came along, Schwitters' day in Germany was over. The Führer did not approve. In 1935 Schwitters fled Germany-first to Norway, then to England, where he died...
...there. "No, if you mean with Eva," answered Hitler. "I tell her every day she ought to find some young fellow. I'm too old." (Hitler was then 49.) Then Mimi asked her old lover what everyone else was asking: "Will there be war?" Der Führer shrugged his shoulders and turned away...
...Thigh. An accomplished stylist, Sir Ivone pins his character to the boards like a lepidopterist. There is a first glimpse of Hitler: "Conversation stopped, everyone shrank towards the walls, a door opened and Hitler strode in, looking neither to the right nor the left." In conference the Führer displays manic mannerisms. He pushes back his chair, smites his thigh with frustrated rage, thunders ultimatums, broods in angry silence over folded arms. He inspired "such physical repugnance" that Sir Ivone hated to shake "his podgy hand," and at one point, though knowing it to be "pusillanimous," asked...
Such ingenuous twists quell the qualms of oldsters, but younger German audiences laugh uproariously at blended-in newsreel shots showing goose-stepping Brownshirts heiling their Führer...