Word: reich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not seem a likely theme for a book about campaigning with Willy Brandt and fictional events in Danzig during the Third Reich--all wrapped up under the pretext of being an explanation to the author's children. But then the author does not look like at first a likely candidate for greatness either. There is a little bit of shaggy dog about his longish brown hair and moustache, and his burly build reminds one of his days as a stone cutter--he made grave stones, like little Oskar in The Tin Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began...
...guide the telling of his adventures through the psychological minefield which the war had left. Lingering guilt--for Grass as for most post-war German writers--infects the language itself. George Steiner has credited Grass with beginning the reclamation of the German language from the "corruptions" of the Third Reich. The author himself today claims that he was able to do so by using the tainted words "right," but it was not so easy as that: to use them "right" meant first supplying the irony and satire of voices like Oskar's to speak them...
...teenager. Frank Clement, who became his best schoolboy friend, remembers the newcomer as "a free and loose kid, an absolute nut . . . with the guts of a burglar." Of Germanic origins, Kalmbach was a fleeting, childish admirer of Hitler before World War II broke out, writing some stories about the Reich in the school paper. Remarkably, he was one of four finalists in a design competition for an airplane de-icer that the U.S. needed, even though, recalls Clement, he was only 13 or 14 when he submitted his idea...
Died. Emmy Sonnemann Goring, 80, Junoesque wife of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Göring and unofficial first lady of the Third Reich; after a long illness; in Munich. A provincial actress in her youth, she stepped into the international limelight in 1935 by becoming the second Mrs. Goring; Adolf Hitler was best man at the wedding. In 1948, two years after her husband committed suicide in prison, Frau Goring was convicted of being a Nazi and was barred from acting for five years. Unable to stage a comeback, she lived out her days in a small apartment in Munich...
...Hitler at ease is the message, as always with home movies. Most of Swastika consists of previously unused material from professional Nazi films, mainly propaganda and newsreel, tightly edited together so as to present the illusion that Mora had sent a documentary team 40 years back into the Reich. The home movies make it seem as though Andy Warhol tagged along...