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Conservative West Germans, who have long sniffed at made-in-America marketing techniques, had never seen anything like it. Splashed in four vibrant colors across their newspapers not long ago were glossy-faced ads touting a new cigarette called Reyno, the Teutonic version of R.J. Reynolds' mentholated Salem. German...
Hurtling his Cadillac down a serpentine road outside Munich, heavy-footed Cinemactor Horst Buchholz, 27, unwillingly dubbed "the Teutonic James Dean," careened out of control and wrapped the white convertible around a tree. Thrown free and found crawling with one hand to his stomach, the blood-smeared star of Billy...
Though she usually writes at top speed, in a sort of typewriter shorthand later expanded to a first and practically final version, Ship of Fools has been in the making for 20 years-"or 30 if I count how long I thought about it." Based on a diary she kept...
Eichmann's imaginative lies and maneuverings paid off in 1938, when Hitler occupied Austria. Eichmann flew to Vienna in the same plane with the top men in the SS, acidulous Heinrich Himmler and blond, willowy Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, and was given the task of getting rid of the...
In its heaving harmonies, its breast-beating emotionalism, its air of Teutonic mysticism, Gurrelieder has no style of its own, is almost a parody of the musical philosophy that Richard Wagner imposed upon whole generations and that survived in the more grandiose visions of Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Nevertheless, the...