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...distance from the monstrous paperhanger, and has suddenly decided to re-examine the great plague he personified. The Eichmann trial is making headlines, and William L. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been steadily topping the bestseller list. Now a Swedish Jew named Erwin Leiser has compiled from captured German film-newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films, secret police footage-this calm, fair, objective and appalling picture history of Hitlerism. Exhibited in Germany, Mein Kampf shocked and humbled its audiences (TIME, Sept. 5). U.S. moviegoers will be shaken too. Memorable moments...
...main box-office attraction in West Germany last week was a film that froze its packed audiences to stiff attention and sent them from the theater in silence with eyes averted. Compiled by a German-born Swedish intellectual named Erwin Leiser, it is a documentary that traces with graphic intensity the rise and collapse of the Third Reich. Its title: Mein Kampf...
...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...
...Jewish emigrant to Sweden, 37-year-old Journalist-TV Producer Leiser made the film to answer "the questions of German young people" from whom, in his opinion, much has been veiled by the "unsatisfactory, evasive, shamefaced answers of parents and teachers." In eight weeks, nearly half a million people have seen Mein Kampf in West Germany. (It is also set for distribution in East Germany.) Audiences, in the main, consist of people under 40, and the popularity of the film tends to contradict the notion that West Germans are unwilling to concern themselves with the facts of the Hitler...
...your Clare Boothe Luce story: Button your shirt, your heart's falling out. ALLAN W. LEISER WILLIAM A. HERTZBERG Huntsville...