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...because its Hitler is not only a monster but also a human being. The Downfall, which opened in Germany last week, was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who has mainly worked in German TV, and stars Swiss actor Bruno Ganz as Hitler. If Ganz's resemblance to the Führer is eerie, it is the sensitivity of his performance - at times introspective and at others explosive - that is truly unsettling. The intimacy springs both from Ganz's talent and the film's source material: it is based on two books, Inside Hitler's Bunker, by German historian Joachim Fest...
...Making sense of Europe's air-traffic-control system, with all the job and sovereignty issues it entails, may not prove any easier. THE COMMON CURRENCY Just Don't Mention the War The British anti-euro campaign is telling a tale full of the pound and the Führer in cinemas this week. Rik Mayall, star of cult TV show The Young Ones, appears in a 90-second ad dressed as Hitler to shout "Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro!" (One people! One country! One euro!) The ad, which includes other celebrities arguing that it is not anti-Europe...
...order to "repay attacks resulting in death" by executing 10 people for every German who died. "For me to have resisted would have been impossible," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "Imagine, if you can, how you would have resisted the personal wishes of the Führer...
Stani and Paulina are crazy for each other. He (Pirotr Lysak) is a young Polish prisoner of war, and she (Hanna Schygulla) is a middle-aged German housewife running her husband's grocery store while he goes off to fight for the Führer, but propriety be damned-they can't and don't keep their hands to themselves. They neck furiously as a young customer enters the store. Stani squats behind the counter and strokes Paulina's thigh while foraging for another customer's potatoes. Everybody in town knows about them: Paulina...
Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. Even in the early '30s, his memoir makes clear, he was not tempted to underrate the Führer. But the collection of crackbrains and third-raters with which Hitler surrounded himself was absurd enough, by Shirer's account, to suggest a reason for the long years before the Nazis were taken seriously in England...