Speer: Hitler and New York

[Richard Romeo]

thx for this, K.  I may go look for that book. rich

related--this is playing at Brooklyn Academy of Music
next week:

December 17
Battle For Our Soviet Ukraine (Bitva za nashu
Sovetskuyu Ukrainu (1943) 80min
An extraordinary wartime documentary on the German
push into the Ukraine, and the subsequent Soviet
counterattack. Dovzhenko utilizes captured German film
as well as hair-raising battle footage in this film
that resists the pull of propaganda, and concentrates
on the horrific images of war.
Tue, Dec 17 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:10pm
 

--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> "I recall how [Hitler] would have films shown in the
> Reich Chancellory
> about London burning, about the sea of fire over
> Warsaw,
> about exploding convoys, and the kind of ravenous
> joy that
> would then seize him every time. But I never saw him
> so beside
> himself as when, in a delirium, he pictured New York
> going
> down in flames. He described how the skyscrapers
> would be
> transformed into gigantic burning torches, how they
> would collapse
> in confusion, how the bursting city’s reflection
> would stand
> against the dark sky."
>  
> Albert Speer, Spandau: The Secret Diaries (New York:
> Macmillan, 1976),
> p. 80.> 
> > 
> 
> kwp
> 


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