Word: nazism
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...interested in sports, and he is unconcerned with religion. Although born into a family of Reform Jews, he was never confirmed, and he accepted Bayreuth's invitation to lead Wagner's Christian allegory, Parsifal, in an opera house that, during the Hitler years, was a citadel of Nazism. "I wanted to go to Bayreuth," he explains, "because the only way I know to solve the enigma of Wagner's being a genius and an anti-Semite is to get as close to it as possible...
When World War II broke out in 1939, the ANC felt itself gradually pressed towards more radical mass action. Some Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch and German colonists, launched a fervent master race movement, which almost awayed the country to Nazism. Although a close and bitter battle in the South African Parliament brought the country into the war on the Allied side, a few Afrikaner paramilitary splinter groups continued to fight for a republic similar to Nazi Germany. The last South African prime minister, John Vorster, was jailed during the war as a Nazi sympathizer...
...articulate opponent of Nazism, Kolbe courageously cared for hundreds of Jewish refugees and was a marked man when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. In Auschwitz, where priests were singled out for special brutality,Kolbe shared his meager food rations and spent much of his time comforting others. Some survivors said it was Kolbe's counsel that inspired them to go on living. For a new biography of Kolbe, A Man for Others (Harper & Row; $12.95), California Journalist Patricia Treece interviewed Sigmund Gorson, a TV personality in Wilmington, Del., and the only Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who knew Kolbe...
Neutra's importance to the modern movement may not yet be fully recognized. For one thing, he was never one of the boys. He emigrated more than a decade ahead of such refugees from Nazism as Gropius and Mies. He settled in California, which is a long way from Yale, Harvard, New York City and Chicago, where architectural history, if not always made, is almost always written. Perhaps to compensate, Neutra strove so stridently for more than his share of recognition that irritated critics may have given him less than he deserved...
Inside the Third Reich, a five-hour TV movie based on the best-selling 1970 memoirs of Albert Speer, is one more honorable exploitation of Nazism's awful charm. At an early Nazi reception, Speer's wife (Blythe Danner) surveys the panoply and calls it "a dress rehearsal for disaster." It was no dress rehearsal; it was a superproduction of the real thing, and the main characters acted as if they were in their own movie. Hitler (Derek Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself...