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he image of Hitler is still
arresting, 65 years after his
suicide and the end of World
War II.
Now the German Historical Museum
has dedicated an exhibit to the fascina-
tion Hitler held for the yolk, the ordi-
nary German citizen.
It marks the first time a German
museum has ventured into such ter-
ritory, and the curators say they have
taken great care to avoid glorifying the
man behind the Third Reich, which in
Germany would not only be distasteful
but illegal.
Controversial though it is for some,
the exhibit has been welcomed by the
Central Council of Jews in Germany.
The council's secretary general, Stephan
Kramer, said he thought the timing was
right, given today's political climate.
"Especially the lower-middle classes
are susceptible to wanting to be led:' he
said, and politicians are "instrumental-
izing their fears."
Kramer said the exhibition "is deal-
ing seriously with the issue, and I don't
think there is a danger of any form of
glorification."
"Hitler and the Germans" opened Oct.
15 in Berlin and runs through Feb. 6.
It includes posters, artifacts and other
contemporary propaganda illuminating
the complex interaction between the
public and their fuhrer, or leader.
Objects are arranged in three chrono-
logical and thematic chapters focusing
on the socio-political conditions, forms
and consequences of Hitler's rise to
power. The propaganda messages on
display are countered by images that
convey the reality of what was hap-
pening. Exhibit items were set up in a
nearly 1,300-square-yard exhibition hall
in ways to discourage neo-Nazis from
taking heroic photos of themselves near
images of Hitler.
The exhibit opened only days after
a new study by the Friedrich Ebert
The playing cards game "Fuhrer
Quartet," Berlin, after 1934
Foundation showed that some 10 per-
cent of Germans still wish they had a
fuhrer to tell them what to do during
these hard economic times.
"My idea, my wish, is to explain these
historical events so that people know
the dangers which are caused by irra-
tional mass movements:' curator Hans-
Ulrich Thamer told JTA. The "fascina-
tion [with Hitler] was caused by very
modern technical methods, with movies
and microphones and so on."
Though it does not focus extensively
on the genocide of the Jews, the exhibit
"shows the persecution of German and
European Jewry as one of the results
of the rhetoric and ideology of the
volksgemeinschaft," — the Nazi concept
of a so-called Aryan racial community,
Thamer added. A sign reading, ews are
unwelcome in our town" is one of the
items on display.
There are also items that were never
meant to be seen by the public, such
as Hitler's secret memo regarding the
so-called euthanasia program in which
physically or mentally disabled citizens,
whose lives were deemed unworthy by
the state, were murdered in gas cham-
bers.
Hitler continued his anti-Semitic
rants in his last will and testament,
charging his followers to resist "the
universal poisoners of all peoples, inter-
national Jewry."
Today, the spot above Hitler's former
bunker, where he killed Eva Braun and
himself, is marked by a small sign. It's
a few steps from the national Holocaust
memorial. El
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