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Adolf Hitler

Hitler and Film: The Führer’s hidden passion by Bill Niven

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June-July 2018, no. 402
Peter Goldsworthy reviews 'Hitler and Film: The Führer’s hidden passion' by Bill Niven

History is written by the Oscar winners in our time, which makes the responsibilities of serious historical scholarship never more important. Despite its realist pretensions – it looks as real as life – film is a dreamy, poetic medium, too often prone to simplicity, conspiracy theory, sucking up to the Zeitgeist ...

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