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...threats-as during the time of the Third Reich-are the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, in a speech that prompted some to say he was likening U.S. policy to that of Nazi Germany. The Kremlin said he was referring to violent extremism...
Trying to rehabilitate the public image of skinheads is no easy task. Judging by Hollywood's take on the genre - see 1998's American History X or Russell Crowe in 1992's Romper Stomper - skinheads are popularly portrayed as neo-Nazi racists with a penchant for violent thuggery. Not so, contends Shane Meadows, the young British director whose new film, provocatively entitled This is England, is raising eyebrows in its exposé of this most controversial of subcultures...
...father. Nevertheless our gaze is averted when the once sweet-and-fragile Shaun starts to change, first daubing racist abuse around the town's walkways and then terrorizing a "Paki" newsagent in emulation of his new mentor. Our fears are confirmed: Shaun has been transformed into a neo-Nazi footsoldier in-the-making...
...critical missing element was an Iraqi government that could have helped us. We decided instead to have Americans administer Iraq. It may have worked in World War II, after the entire world fought against Nazi Germany for many years. But in the context of the Middle East, it was not going to work any more than the French occupation of Algeria. To Arabs it looked as though this was all about occupation as opposed to liberation. We were dismissive about the capacity of Iraqis to control their own future. We have struggled ever since...
...plot moves along, the realities of German life outside the Kit Kat Klub become more apparent, and the second act is accordingly much grimmer. Aspiring politician Ernst Ludwig (Daniel V. Kroop ’10) becomes the face of the growing Nazi party; as he rises, both the relationships that developed in the first act fall apart...