Laguerre For the first time, opened on Friday, with thousands of visitors, in a major museum in Berlin a show about Adolf Hitler. The objective is to analyze larelación between the Fuehrer and the German nation. Hitler and losalemanes: Nation and crime sample offered by the German Historical Museum in Berlin, has been praised by break down taboos and reopen the debate about how it was that Hitler pudoseducir a nation with such success. "Like it or not, he remains our hallmark stronger," Karl said Schnorr, a retired engineer of 68 years in the pre-opening of laexposición. "Maybe it's time that we leave behind, but first we must understand why we so completely seduced." The exhibition coincides with a poll published this week in elque one in ten Germans acknowledged that he would like a style figure Führer " govern Germany with an iron fist, "while 35 percent said the country was" dangerously invaded "by foreigners. The exhibition aims to explain how personality and ideals of Hitler penetrated to the depths of life German. Among the hundreds of exhibits, there are collections of objects allusive and Nazi propaganda, such as beer mats, cards, toy soldiers and lampshades with the swastika.
are also studied carefully almost fetishistic obsession with the Germans for Nazi-era uniforms and issues such as the fact that the established churches as easily be aligned with the Nazis.
But, reflecting the sensitivity of the issue, almost no objects that could have played Hitler. "These tangible relics carry the danger of fostering a cult of the Führer," said Simon Erpel, one of the curators. "A collector offered us his portfolio but we reject it for that reason." Among the exceptions, is an elegant dark wood chest of Hitler's Foreign Ministry, filigree with hundreds of swastikas, which has been placed diagonally on a wall and is protected from potential admirers of Hitler by a thin gauze panel.
In a country where the Nazi salute, Mein Kampf and the swastika are pro hibidos , the nervousness of the curators is palpable. In addition to the decision not to play recordings of the speeches of Hitler, there is no picture of him alone. The three large portraits of different life stages that open the exhibition include a photomontage of your face on a skull. Behind each photograph, printed on chiffon, displayed pictures of their supporters, marching soldiers and unemployed workers.
addition to SS uniforms, no uniforms of prisoners of concentration camps and street signs that read "No Jews" to ensure that the greatest crimes of the Nazis, the killing of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and opponents of the regime, are part of the debate.
A propaganda film showing Mussolini's visit to Berlin in 1937 with projected scenes from Charlie Chaplin's satire The Great Dictator. "We are fully aware what we do and we plan this carefully, "said Professor Hans-Ulrich Thamer, the chief curator. "The reason this is happening now is that all generations have a need to ask questions. The demon died long ago, what remains are many expressions and explanations. The current generation is approaching this with curiosity, "he said.
tablets within a cabinet, a set of bronze busts of Hitler and terracotta. "The are located with particular care so that nobody can easily sit next to them," said Thamer.
The exhibition, which took six years of preparation and was advised by the British historian and Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, proposes the thesis that the Nazi leader was able to mobilize the hopes and fears of social Germans but that their ability to seduce had little to do with their personal characteristics. "As a young man was an unattractive character," Thamer said.
The exhibition comes after a series of films, documentaries and even recent comedies that tried to demystify the Nazi leader. The attempt was the acclaimed 2004 film Fall , which dramatized the last days of Hitler in his Berlin bunker claustrophobic.
One indication that the issue is far from being exhausted is the conference that accompanies the exhibition, entitled "We are far from over with Hitler."
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