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...guarantee the safety of the freed terrorists, the kidnapers demanded that they be accompanied on their flight out of Germany by Swiss Human Rights Activist Denis Payot and by Protestant Theologian Martin Niemöller, 85, famed for his opposition to Hitler. (Niemöller said he was willing to go.) As proof that Schleyer was still alive the terrorists sent federal officials a video tape of the industrialist in captivity...
West German terrorists have a powerful ally: their country's legal system. The laws of the Federal Republic, many enacted when Hitler was a fresh memory, strongly guarantee the right of political dissent and put heavy restraints on the investigative and prosecutory powers of the state. A cadre of 70 or so clever young radical lawyers (out of 31,000 practicing attorneys in West Germany) have pushed the system to its libertarian limits. They are not only the terrorists' best friends, but also the worst enemies of the courts...
This fall several nonfictional studies of the Ugandan dictator are to be published in the U.S. One, Idi Amin: Death-light of Africa (Little, Brown; $8.95), was written pseudonymously by a white civil servant who spent 20 years in Uganda; another, Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa (Sheed Andrews and McMeel; $7.95), is by Thomas Patrick Melady, the last U.S. ambassador in Kampala, and his wife Margaret. In his short I Love Idi Amin (Fleming H. Revell; paperback, 95?), an African clergyman, Bishop Festo Kivengere, has written of the trials of the church and churchmen in Amin's Uganda...
...bitter-comic novelist in her own right, who ended up in self-imposed exile in Paris, musing about Louis XIV. Or consider the two fascist Mitfords: Diana, who married Sir Oswald Mosley, Führer of the British Blackshirts, and Unity, a prized exotic of Hitler's inner circle until she shot herself in the head the day World War II was declared...
Among older viewers the reaction is often uneasiness. Says West Berliner Eva Becker, 76: "That was how Hitler was. He was black magic, and intoxicated people. We thought of him only as a dynamic leader who got the nation on its feet again and solved the awful unemployment problem." Fest aims to correct the ignorance that one generation has forced upon its successor, so that a second Hitler cannot rise to power-and for most viewers, he succeeds. Says he: "If you want to make a society a little more secure against someone like Hitler, then you must give people...