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...epic: "That Realmleader Hitler...holds [Riefenstahl] in high esteem...is apparent to everyone...At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Fuhrer Hitler and giving visitors to Germany a startling picture of what he thinks German girls should...
...Bendix" digs up World War II battlefields so that he can commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers his customers a computer game called Concentration Camp Manager...
History repeating itself as farce? We should be so lucky. If the 27-year-old Hasselbach's autobiography, Fuhrer-Ex (Random House; 384 pages; $24), demonstrates anything, it is that Germany's small but venomous neo-Nazi movement, along with supporters in Austria and the U.S., can tap the same depths of irrationality that possessed Central Europe 60 years ago. Past and present reminders of that madness now reach us with context-blurring frequency. Contemporary television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging...
...political audience might conclude that he resembles a hardbitten David Bowie. That star quality was recognized early, in the communist German Democratic Republic where Hasselbach was born. In 1987 and 1988 he was twice jailed by the G.D.R. for publicly insulting the government. Pumped up in prison with the Nazi ideology and war stories of a former Gestapo officer who was a fellow inmate, he returned to the streets to establish the "Movement of the 30th of January," so-called to commemorate the date in 1933 when Hitler took power...
...rival anarchist gangs and foreign residents. In the early 1990s--about the same time he began questioning his choice of careers--Hasselbach found what he calls a new "father figure." He was a French-based German filmmaker who, in the course of making a documentary titled Profession Neo-Nazi, inspired the now weary 25-year-old Hasselbach to renounce his past...