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Paroled on Dec. 19, 1924, Hitler spent the next five years reinvigorating the Nazi Party, exploiting Weimar democracy to bring down the Republic. The party's members were tireless, cajoling, exhorting, running for local offices, gathering about them a brutal elite guard called the Schutzstaffel, or SS. During this period an American journalist, Louis Lochner, watched the Nazi leader addressing students at Berlin University. "I came away from that meeting," he reported, "wondering how a man . . . who ranted and fumed and stamped could so impress young intellectuals. Of all people, I thought, they should have detected the palpable flaws...
...idea that somehow, if people ) have tasted freedom, the taste cannot be wrung out of them is a fallacy so large it is embarrassing just to hear it. Think only of this century. Russia tasted freedom in February 1917 and by October had lost it for 70 years. Weimar Germany tasted democracy for 14 years; it took Hitler and his storm troopers a few months to eradicate it. (Had Hitler not started World War II, the taste might to this day not have returned.) Hungarians let the genie out in 1956; five days and 5,000 tanks later, Khrushchev...
...exceptions rather than the rule. Most graduate students say they know few individual teaching fellows who have used Harvard's training resources. And University Marshal Richard M. Hunt is considered an anomaly because he allows every TF in his course, Literature and Arts C-45, "Culture and Society from Weimar to Nazi Germany," to give at least one lecture. Many teaching fellows say they have given only one or two--if any--lectures during their graduate school careers...
...beginning of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Professor Richard Hunt, who teaches a Core course called "Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany," delivers a short lecture on Brecht, while a rogues gallery of Nazi thugs, whom Brecht's parable has transformed into Chicago gangsters, listens in bemusement. "It is a very serious play. It is also a very funny play," Hunt says of Ui itself. Then one of the gangsters motions Hunt offstage and shoots...
Hainsworth also incorporated Senior Lecturer in Social Studies Richard M. Hunt, who teaches a Core course on Weimar Germany, into the play's prologue. Hunt reads an introduction which puts the play in its historical context. "It's a great way to get to know student actors," Hunt says...