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...claim. While other Labor players and pollsters were occupied with Beazley's fate, Rudd was trying to take down Howard. In an essay about faith in politics for The Monthly magazine last October, Rudd eulogized a personal hero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and martyr who opposed the Nazi state. Rudd's targets were the Christian right and the incumbents in Canberra. He claimed Howard employed "radioactive soundbites" to manipulate the truth and called for "a new premium attached to truth in public life." In the next issue of the magazine, Rudd again preyed on the P.M., arguing that...
Brimming with bawdry and smut, Paul Verhoeven’s “Black Book” focuses on the sleazier side of World War II. And what guilty, brooding cineaste doesn’t like a little Nazi sex now and then? Because he poses the odd moral question, Verhoeven’s movie—his first filmed in the Netherlands in over two decades—isn’t entirely worthless. Still, he puts too much of “Showgirls” (his 1995 softcore porn hit) into “Black Book...
BERLIN, 1936 Cinema pioneer and accused propagandist Leni Riefenstahl set a new standard for sports photography with Olympia, her film of the Nazi-hosted games. To the end, she maintained that art, sport and politics collided--but didn't collude...
...wait a minute. World War II is now over 50 years past. Isn't it possible at last - without diminishing the indelible horror of Nazi Germany's war crimes - to imagine a degree of moral obtuseness among those who fought them? Isn't it also possible that such imagining can be triggered by a hugely enjoyable movie like Black Book - slickly made, sexually provocative, violently stirring, a movie that seems to be looking for nothing more than a good, melodramatic time but somehow transcends that, er, basic impulse. Human nature always includes its opposite, which is inhumanity...
...America as a child and then spent his life writing gaudily erotic poetry, interviewing great men and expressing his complex love for his fatherland. Einstein assumed Viereck was Jewish. In fact, Viereck proudly traced his lineage to the family of the Kaiser, and he would later become a Nazi sympathizer who was jailed in America during World War II for being a German propagandist...