The half-Jewish assistant of Hitler's photographer Heinrich Hoffmann in early 20s Munich. How Hitler's pictures were set up, how his movements were choreographed for film, how Hitler himself dealt with the propagandists under him through a mixture of bullying and cajoling. How Hitler kissed up to the unstable Ludendorff through flattery during Ludendorff's tantrums. How Julius Schaub would organize Hitler's meetings. How Rudolf Hess would write down every saying of Hitler as though it were pearls of wisdom and make up a few with Hitler's approval. How Hitler would make everybody act with gratitude to Max Ervin von Scheubner-Richter in front of him but all Hitler's henchman would make fun of him in private for being a Russian. Repeats rumors of how Rohm would be sent out for midnight assassinations.
Jewish journalist covers Hitler trial. Observes how Hitler pleads guilty because he gambles on the fact that the conservative judge will absolve him, but glories in the possibility of martyrdom, and glories in his own press coverage, seeming to pose for photographers as he speaks, choosing the words he repeats very carefully, how he builds up rhetoric until he reaches a climax. How the entire courtroom is centered upon Hitler and how a number of his previously democratic colleagues are clearly falling under Hitler's spell.
A teen named Charlap whose great-grandfather came to Berlin in the mid-18th century banishes rumors that he is part Jewish out of his head in spite of being made fun of by his peers. He marches at Nuremberg in formation and feels that he is no longer a person, but just a cell in a collective being.
Himmler, occult obsessed, sends a Nazi delegation to Tibet to discover the secret of life. They go to an ashram in the Himilayas, where they encounter an American Jewish businessman there named Charlap who keeps trying to befriend them and get them to talk about why they came from Germany.
1933. Aging violinist in Berlin, private violin teacher to uninterested students who went to music school with brilliant Jewish violinists. Can't bare to practice more than one hour a day, spends the rest of the day at the pub playing skat. One good violinist friend from conservatory is a Jewish first violinist in the Philharmonic, his playing praised personally by Furtwangler and Walter and Nikisch, chosen by Edwin Fischer and Busoni to be konzertmeister in their freelance chamber orchestras. Practices every day five hours even when not rehearsing. The goyisher violinist is hired as a back desk second violinist in the Philharmoniker after his friend is fired. In the first few weeks he gets to play with Furtwangler, the Busches, Fischer, Kempff, Cortot and Erich Kleiber. But on the way to the Philharmonie he has to walk by his friend busking in the street, playing all the violin concertos to large crowds. At first he is apologetic. The violinist's crowds get smaller every day. Eventually he is no longer acknowledged. Eventually the goyisher friend doesn't acknowledge him either, when he tries to make him, he pretends he doesn't know who his friend is at all.
The meeting between Fritz Haber and Chaim Weizmann where Weizmann offers him to be the director of the Sieff Institute in Rehovot. They talk chemistry. As the father of chemical warfare, Haber is accused of killing Germans everywhere he goes in for more than a decade. Weizmann says 'you can still save lives. You've already saved billions--referring to that Haber is also the father of fertilization synthesis. 'Come to Israel and save more lives. Even if Germany associates you with chemical weapons, no Jew will ever associate it with you again.'
Winter 1919. 40,000 Eastern European Jews sent back to the Soviet Union after World War I as Communists. A boat of Jews imagines they will be welcomed into the Soviet Union as martyrs to the cause. Instead they are immediately arrested by Soviet commissars and put in a cold prison camp as suspected spies. After a week or a month, the Comissars tell them they can absolve themselves of all charges if all the men volunteer to serve in the Red Army for the Russian Civil War where they will be transferred immediately to front lines. Women and children will work in munitions factories. Some older men, having served in World War I, know what is coming. The younger men imagine that this will be fairly easy work. The new Soviet Union cannot possibly send people to their deaths so blithely.
The security guard in Freud's hospital, noting that it seems like everybody in the hysteria wing is rich, Jewish and famous. "We've secretly had Wittgensteins here, Mahlers, Klimts, Rothschilds, not the great men themselves but every wife, mother, son, daughter and in-law. Something about all these geniuses drives everybody crazy." He tells about how Freud called the guard in and asks him to free associate and to tell him about dreams. Freud asks if he'd agree to be hypnotized and he tells Freud he doesn't go in for that Jewish devilry." While Freud is absent, he comes in and finds a file. "Excessive cleanliness and keeps using the vowel O which suggests anal fixation. Overactive Id. Oedipus Complex underdeveloped." Looks through Freud's papers to see if he can find definition of anal fixation, as he figures it is a potential disease he shoudl probably find out about if he's to get it treated. He doesn't find it, but he finds a speech in which Freud provides a definition of Oedipus Complex, reads it, runs out of the hospital in horror. He immediately comes home and starts writing a letter, which turns out to be a letter the editor of the antisemitic paper Deutsches Volksblatt.
1936: Jewish butler at a dinner at the London townhouse of Joseph Kennedy, where the King is coming to dinner. Along with the King will be Wallace Simpson, Oswald Mosley, the Mitford sisters, and the new ambassador to the Court of St. James: Joachim von Ribbentrop. At this dinner, King Edward announces his intention to abdicate so he may marry Wallace Simpson, at which point everyone pleads with him in horror to not do it or else Britain will probably join on the Allied side. Two other guests at the dinner are Joseph's two sons: Joseph and John. Joseph is enormously talkative and everyone is annoyed by his loquacity even though they know his father is grooming him to be President one day. John says nearly nothing, but also disappears with each of the Mitford Sisters one by one over the course of two hours.
1935: Bela Balasz, writer, film theorist, librettist of Bluebeard's Castle, lover of Leni Riefenstahl and Jew, has taught his brilliant actress lover all she needs to know about moviemaking, thinking a woman would never advance far in the industry behind the camera and that her interest was purely scholastic. But the moment Hitler wins the election, she suddenly changes her politics and pretends she did not react with horror to everything Hitler did in Balasz's presence. Just before the first Great Terror, Balasz, having escaped to the Soviet Union, gets drunk with Sergei Eisenstein's editor, and is shown a rare print of Triumph of the Will, He tries to explain to the editor that he mentored Leni Riefenstahl, but even drunk, the editor tells him to never repeat that to anyone. Two quotes: "All this time I thought I was Bluebeard and she was Judith trying to find the keys to my secrets of film, but no, the whole time, she was Bluebeard." the story ends with: "No one will ever know my masterpiece."
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