Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Saturday. May 5. 1973 wave of interest in Hitler s life sweeps Germany by John m. Gosi1ko Bonn special tins april 20 was a Legal holi Day in Wisl Germany but. Only because his year Good Friday happened to fall on that Date. However april 20 had another significance for this country although in was t marked in red on any German calendars. It was the birthrate of Adolf Hitler. He would have been 84 had he survived the War that he almost single hand edly fanned Inlo the worst holocaust the world has Ever known. In the 28 years since the collapse of Hitler s Reich Hitler s birthday has Boon a Date that germans preferred to let pass in painful silence. No one wanted to be reminded of a Man who led this country into the most shameful chapter of its history brought death and suffering to millions and left Germany divided and destroyed. At least thai was the Case until this year. On april 20, his birthday be came the occasion for the simultaneous w o r 1 d pre Miere in 20 German theatres of Hitler the last 10 Days a British italian film featuring Alec guinness As the Defeated fuehrer on the verge of Sui cide. It was the most startling evidence to Date that West Germany is in the midst of a Hitler wave a resurgence of interest ill the late dicta Tor s life and its Impact on German history. As the newsmagazine Dor Spiegel recently observed Hitler is Back again. Within recent weeks close to a dozen new books about Hitler have either been put on the German Market or scheduled for publication. Those currently available Range All the Way from the German translation of american Psychia Trist Walter Lunger s the mind of Hitler to Walter Kempowski s slim collection of third Ucich reminiscences did you Ever see Hitler Der Spiegel currently is serializing the newly re Vised version of historian Werner Maser s 1971 Biog Raphy Adolf Hitler legend Lythos and reality. And this fall the rival mag Azine Stern will serialize a new Hitler biography in 15 instalments. It is already advertising the work by Joachim fest As the most talked about Book of the year. On the the guinness film is Only the. Latest entry in a spate of Hitler movies most of them foreign made. A prominent austrian actor and Monolo Gist Helmut quilting or has also attracted a Large Youthful following and a lot of controversy with a show featuring his satirical read ing of selection from main kampf. All this interest in Liller appears to Cut across every segment of German society embracing older people who still retain vivid memories of the nazi Era As Well As a younger generation that was t even born until Long after the War. The phenom Enon is especially Surpris ing because the germans tended for so Long to try and shut Hitler out of their consciousness and treat him As a historical no person. That was the Case even though the West German press television stage and screen All of who re Long ago faced up squarely to the past has Given the g c r m a n Public Many a real estate reports by our Kin s. Munda. Ml.a., . Montgo Eiliot ply Letlon the Royal Trust company do you experience difficulty in keeping various Homes separate and Clear in your mind after hav ing inspected several u will Imd nil 0-Nnle in a Wimburn in Bun Nunt. Glic service laundry areas Etc. Alter ins Docking the basement n i i floor idea 10 return 10 in Liduino room ill floor arid in Avryl la Hough room troc cd Iron Iii annl Hall lol a Livieri room to Ilif family Ofrim in on the ground hoo1 be 01 in he lining room 3nrt Kitchen Hal i "1 in Gilron it and two mar Ray Eil Prift or b of scorn. Or to Orr. Ii you Tolow the seme Oral liar in Evay Nome. You will Nave no Retif Feuilly m keen ing the details separated end i Doc eted with the respective Homes. Tor further information Hoyal Trust head office full in we ii pet there Are 5 offices to serve you look in do you know tue try the and shape of the new Home thai you require for your Nam week. Grim reminder of what h was like in the third Reich. But until now even the Media have tended to Lotus on lesser figures in Llic nazi pantheon and shy away from close up studies of the fuehrer himself. T h c Hitler Welle has come in for plenty of criticism. But most observers Here seem to View it Asba sic ally a Good thins. In their opinion it represents not a resurgence of nazi ideology or morbid fascination with Hitler s ideas but an attempt by germans to come to terms with their past. Actually the Hitler wello has been building Here for a Long time. Initially it was confined largely to the gloomy ponderous often self exculpate no books and personal memoirs that began appearing after the War. In All of the common thread appears to be a dread and Awe. Of Hitler so great As to be Al most paralytic. Perhaps the Man who did the most to break this Ili read was Maser who de voted years of research to those elements of the Hitler Story that form the subtitle of his biography legend my Lios and reality. His 1971 work went a Long Way toward erasing some of the Long Chris lid Hitler myths and showing both German academicians and laymen that it was possible to look Al. The dictator s life and work with a detached and critical Eye. Now As one very apparent Strain in tile Hitler Welle indicates the Ger mans arc moving a step further and finding them selves Able nut Only to de bunk but to laugh Al the fuehrer. This is especially True of the Young germans who see Hiller As a ridiculous campy figure whose hold Over their parents is literally a subject for Black laughter. That explains Why qual linger with his mein kampf readings invariably plays a packed houses of Young germans. Qua linger Reading in the hoarse hysterical overtones that come uncannily close to the voice of the original Lurns mein kempt into an unintentional comic master piece. Bui he never lets his audience forget that it was also a precise timetable for what one German critic Calls uie greatest ego trip of All Lime. For older germans qual i incr s routine cuts too close for Comfort. But they too Are starting to learn How to laugh at Hitler. This is underscored most notably in the Way that Middle aged germans flock to repealed showings Here of iwo old . Films poking farcical fun at Hiller and the entire nazi phenomenon. This is Ernst Lubitsch s excellent 1942 satire to be or not to be which Fea Lui cd Kack Benny As a Ham polish actor Laking on killer himself and Triumph ing Over him. The other is Charlie Chaplin s the great dictator. Chaplin s 19-10 film is playing to packed houses in 25 German cities though some the arcs in a v a r i a and Sci Leswig loll Stein refused to Book it on the grounds that it was too controversial and insulting. The audiences Roar at Chaplin s masterpiece por trayal of he fuehrer s ridiculous Side. But there is total a most reverential silence Al the brutality and Anli semitism and embarrassed squirming during the scene where Chaplin in his Duel role As the Little jew ish Barber is about to be hanged from a Lamppost by a gang of stormtroopers. Chaplin himself is reported to have said that he would never have made the film had he known what was really happening in the concentration Camps. But the germans seem to Dis agree. One University student who saw the film in Bonn remarks the great tragedy was Hal Chaplin could t have made that picture at the Start of the Hitler Era and that it could t have been shown Here. 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Protest attempt foiled Helsinki api about 50 westerners mostly americans who tried to organize religious demonstrations in the Soviel Union were escorted to he Fin Nish Border by the soviet Mili Tia Friday. The group had been stopped by soviet police while trying to reach Moscow where they planned to stage a religious demonstration on May Day last i tuesday. Members of the group said they were confined for in Rucj Days in a Kalinin hotel and not allowed to Call their countries1 embassies in Moscow. I group members said that on thursday their passports were i returned with an order to leave i the soviet Union. They were is i Cor cd in a militia Convoy to i uie finnish Border a trip of 4001 Miles. I besides amen miss there i were youths from Britain ire hand South Africa new Zoa i land Australia and Finland in the group. The group is made up of both i christians and jews. 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It May be of interest to you and it is indeed a compliment to you that your we now wish to Tell you of some further action we Are taking to re position our products to More closely reflect your concerns and those of the Manitoba government 1 the 10-ounce non returnable bottle is a package that More than any other soft drink package is viewed As a potentially Haz ardous part of trash thrown away by some people. We have therefore voluntarily ceased production and Sale of our products in 10 ounce non returnable bottles on april 30. In this we have the support of the department of environmental management and we know that you too will support this move. We Are adopting a pricing Structure that will encourage the use of refillable returnable containers. Now and in the foreseeable future All of our Cost increases will be reflected in increased prices of cans and non returnable bottles. This will help us to maintain the full extent of the recent Federal sales tax elimination on our products in returnable bottles and further enhance their value to you. This should encourage greater use of the soft drink package that is economical returnable for Nickles and dimes conserving of resources reusable while still maintaining the important element of free Choice. We believe this to be in line with the principles advocated by the provincial department of environmental management. We Hope that to a greater extent you will become a returnable consumer of our soft drinks. 3 our on going activities will continue to emphasize the value of returnable bottles to you and to the environment. 4 we will be supporting anti littering educational programs to be launched in the coming months. 5 we will be supporting research into ways and Means of Over coming solid waste management problems. 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