Hitler?

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Harold writes:
"The film also illuminated an interesting facet of GR:  I can't think of a single
book or movie about or set in WWII that doesn't mention Hitler...except GR.
Hitler is part of the faceless Them, I guess.  He's irrelevant to the motion of
individuals through history."

You're right that Adolf is certainly decentralized from GR, but he doesn't
escape mention.  There are several brief references (such as Reverand Pauld
de la Nuit's "Herod or Hitler, fellas" and the reference to AH being a
possible viewer of von Goll's GOOD COMPANY) as well as some indirect allusions
like "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furher."

I don't think AH is de-emphasized because of the "motion of individuals" but
on the contrary is finally just a symptom and means of the larger forces of
Death at work in the world.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)