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Hitler-and History-on Film
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
November 19, 1989| Author:
Anton Kaes
| Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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THE FURTHER the past recedes, the closer it becomes; film
renders the past ever-present. Gradually but inexorably, film images
of the past have begun to supersede memory and experience. All of
us, whether or not we lived through the Hitler era, have partaken of
its sights and sounds in a host of documentary and feature films;
they function for us today as a technological memory bank. History,
it would seem, has become widely accessible, but the power over
memory has passed into the hands of ...
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