Wednesday, December 10 2008
POV: Inheritance
This notion of "help" -- impossible, necessary -- colors Inheritance, a documentary about living with memories of a Nazi father.
Monday, November 24 2008
The Rape of Europa
The film contrasts remarkable footage of the Fuhrer leading tours of museums with images of the devastation his troops wrought.
Tuesday, May 6 2008
The Forger by Cioma Schonhaus
It is his efforts in saving others which lend the book its title, and earned Schonhaus his nickname as the “Jewish Schindler”.
Thursday, July 26 2007
Becoming Eichmann by David Cesarani
There are virtually no details of Adolf Eichmann's personal life in Cesarani's book.
Tuesday, May 15 2007
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)
Broadly drawn and ballsy, the movie features horrendous violence and stupefying melodrama: it's WWII without the usual sober romance, the Greatest Generation meets Starship Troopers.
Tuesday, January 13 2004
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (2002)
Though she swears that she has come to believe in Hitler's inherent evil, she also uses the word 'love' several times to describe her one-time feelings for him.
Friday, February 28 2003
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (2002)
'Amen', like 'Blind Spot', considers atrocity by examining the real burden of abiding with it long after the fact.
