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...using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer's Face. Jones's name for it: "A very violent comic type of music...
...hiccupped and belched, shouted, muttered, got his sentences mixed up. Not much of his speech was intelligible, but some of it seemed to indicate that his celebration was the result of a session with Hitler. "I saw the Führer yesterday," he shouted thickly. "I had the incredible joy of being with him for the whole day. I can only tell you-" Here Ley's voice broke, but he recovered, went on: "We do not complain, oh Fate! Take whom you will as a sacrifice! . . . But spare us one! Preserve for us the health and strength...
...year. His military and political alliances were now worldwide, built on the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. His armies swept through the Balkans, across the African desert to Egypt's gates. But the Battle of Britain had been lost, "and in June 1941 the Führer sought security elsewhere than in England's conquest. The Wehrmacht threw its might against Soviet Russia, rolled to Moscow's suburbs before winter fell. Then the tide turned...
...credible romance, the camera visits German parents fearful that their offspring will snitch on them, a girls' work camp where rabbit morals are encouraged, a state home for unwed mothers (beams a pregnant Fraulein: "I hope I have much pain. I want to suffer for der Führer"). Most awesome shot: thousands of children ringed about a pillar of flame in a midnight, midsummer pagan ceremony, dedicating their lives to Hitler.* Most terrifying shot: a busy Frauen Klinik where women are being sterilized...
Haunting Figures. The Führer's words on socialism may have sounded strange to Germans who knew that under Naziism plutocracy has risen to new heights of glory. But on another point they could feel with the Führer-when he spoke...