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...true believers. But were they as ingenuous as Daniel makes them out to be? On the film's testimony, U.S. Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...
...Quick, a majority placed the blame for the war, the extermination of the Jews and the stifling of dissent during the Third Reich on Hitler, but only about 20% condemned his policies totally. Significantly, more than two-thirds wanted additional information about the man and his times. Says Michael Tummler, 24, a political science student at Munich University: "Interest in Hitler within my own generation has increased considerably lately. But this is not to be interpreted as a sudden infection with the ideas that our parents and grandparents once carried. For the majority of us, Hitler remains an enigmatic, almost...