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...from a glowing portrait. "People said, 'Don't you run the risk of humanizing Hitler?''' says executive producer Peter Sussman. "I don't think that's a risk. We're showing that he walked and lived among us." Sussman did take pains to be sensitive, ordering that all the Nazi uniforms and props be burned after shooting, so none would end up on eBay. In one case, the powers behind Hitler were too sensitive. In an interview with TV Guide, executive producer Ed Gernon said the U.S. before the war in Iraq was, like Germany during Hitler's rise...
Four years later, his surveillance of a suspected Nazi spy gave him one of his first contacts with Harvard...
When pro-segregation Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace spoke in Sanders Theatre in 1968 and protesting Harvard students surrounded the building, Tonis was forced to fall back on his knowledge of the same steam tunnels that had allowed the Nazi spy to elude...
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's most irrepressibly public philosopher, says he's always been fighting the same adversary: "the will to purity," whether political or racial. In a long career of public causes, he has seen that ill will on the faces of Nazi sympathizers, the Soviet nomenklatura, Pakistani generals fighting against Bangladesh's independence, and Serb paramilitaries bent on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. Now he sees it in militant Islam - which he believes is perilously close to acquiring nuclear arms. Lévy's latest book was not prompted by political theory, but brute fact: the murder...
...companies are watching nervously as a federal judge in New Jersey prepares to rule on a case that could reopen a floodgate of Holocaust - related litigation. The suit was filed by the children of Günther and Fritz Wertheim, who ran a thriving Jewish chain store before fleeing Nazi Germany. Believing their assets worthless, they sold to a German businessman in 1951 for $18,400. In doing so, they lost prized Berlin real estate, according to the $500 million suit against KarstadtQuelle, Germany's biggest retailer, which now owns the property. The case threatens a 1999 accord designed...