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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 09/26/05 18:57
Angus Manwaring wrote:
> On 25-Sep-05 22:29:17, Gunther Gloop said
>> Angus Manwaring wrote:
>
>> Yeah, they're all excellent. I thought the guy who played Speer
>> perfectly caught the kind of loveable, stoic features of the man
>> himself, as well as his... ambiguousness. I've often wondered how
>> especially he _really_ felt about it all.
>
> Have you read his book, Inside the Third Reich? I found it a great
> read, but your question still stands, thata's what he said (or wrote)
> but how honest was it?
>
I didn't read the book (or alas see the Rutger Haur movie you mentioned in
the other post -as far as I can remember). I really only know about him from
stuff like the World At War series and other documentaries.
>> I can't say I "know" any of them, but Speer always struck me as a
>> kind of curious out-of-place figure in the whole third reich setup.
>> ...Still does.
>
> Very much so. I think even the British pointed him out as a shining
> example of a German during the second World War. Thinking the article
> would be used against him, by Hitler's power hungry inner circle,
> Speer took the article to Hitler himself.
>
There is a good part in this movie that is almost like that -where Speer
tells Hitler some stuff he could have decided not to, but ends up only
increasing the ambiguity of his motives (to my mind).
>> ...And the main actress (playing the secretary) is... er... _hot_. :)
>
> Traudl or something is it. What cracked me up was reading that she
> and her co-worker used to do a gentle micky take of Hitler who often
> used the expression, "There are two possibilities, either we shall be
> at war with the British or we shall not...." I think her version was
> "There are two possibilities, either we shall go to lunch or we shall
> not...."
>
> Given the context, and the target of the joke, that struck me as
> pretty funny.
>
:)
Do you think he fired anyone during those later years without a gun being
used? :)
-Kevin.
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