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These are the ingredients of a unique new German bimonthly, Das Dritte Reich (The Third Reich). Its technique is that of a newsmagazine covering contemporary events. Its stated purpose: to give Germans, particularly younger people, a vivid account of their nation's bleakest years...
...Reich's debut this month is a political as well as a publishing event in West Germany. As the first home-grown editorial effort to re-create the mood and experiences that led to Hitler's power-grab, Reich has unsettled Germans of all political persuasions. Its editor, Christian Zentner, says that over the next two years the magazine will attempt to explain how "the nation of poets and philosophers" could become "a nation of murderers and criminals." But many Germans apparently still care less about that question than about keeping the skeleton of the Nazi era closeted...
...fact, Reich in its first 48-page issue unsparingly documents the truth that Nazism, while seeded in the depths of Germany's post-World War I economic depression, bloomed in the resurgence of nationalistic pride created by Hitler and his henchmen. Symbols of that pride dominate photographs illustrating actual news dispatches of the day or adorning a 1932-33 chronicle of Germany's cultural and sporting life: Boxer Max Schmeling fighting America's Jack Sharkey for the world's heavyweight title; Marlene Dietrich posing in a scene from one of her early film triumphs...
Serious Issue. The new magazine's detractors fear that such nostalgia could ignite latent neo-fascism today. The liberal weekly Die Zeit attacked it as a slickly packaged Making of Der Führer. Conservative readers are already complaining that Reich maligns and distorts Nazism's objectives. The magazine's advance promotional blitz was particularly upsetting. It featured decorative political posters of the '30s, tiny swastika flags, and throwaway recordings of Nazi party speeches. That tactic, charged a West Berlin court prosecutor, tended to glorify the era, suggesting that Hitler's Reich was fun. After...
Claims for pyramid power have yet to reach the mystical pitch that Wilhelm Reich created for his orgone box 30 years ago, but a semiserious microcult is gathering around the geometric form in which ancient Egyptians buried their pharaohs. Some experts have theorized that pyramids focused energy in a manner that made a better mummy...