It takes two women to break Jojo out of the spell Hitler has cast upon him. They do it with love and patience and common sense. These two actresses who embody his salvation are Scarlett Johansson as Rosie, the resistance fighter and Jojo’s mother, and Thomasin McKenzie as Elsa, the ...
In 1933, the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler banned all opposition parties in Germany.The government of Iceland is currently opposed to membership in the European Union.Sigmund Freud once suggested that men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they ...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hans Adolf Baumgarten (as far as we can tell, a pseudonym) served as an adviser in the foreign affairs department of the office of the Austrian president. Initially, Soviet agents attempted to recruit him “on a material basis,” meaning that they simpl...
There are precedents. In "The Great Dictator" (1940), Charlie Chaplin played a version of Adolf Hitler, dubbed Adenoid Hynkel. Rogen and Goldberg could have similarly fictionalized their central character. But the two, weaned on quasi-real comedies like "The Larry Sanders Show" and greatly infl...
As parents teaching young drivers we recently had the chance for one of those "on the road teaching moments" when a fire truck was closing in quickly in our rearview mirror. Thankfully, we were in the right lane of traffic and made pulling to the side of the road easier. ...
An immigration spokesperson has indicated that the refugees will all be allowed to stay in the country.As the union spokesman, I represent over 200 workers in this factory.In February of 1920, Adolf Hitler, spokesman for an extremist political group in Germany, outlined the organization's ...