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...by James Mason
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Last month I had the dubious "opportunity" of seeing the film by that name which took enormous, stupendous liberties with the identity of a still living persons– Dr. Josef Mengele– by placing him as a central character, played by Gregory Peck, in a fictitious Hollywood pot-boiler and actually killing him off in the film! Never before have I seen this done. (Not to get off my main subject but to draw an important parallel, how many of you have seen, heard, or read about Mrs. Doris Tate's national campaign to deny parole to those members of the Manson "Family" involved in the killings of 1969? Major national tabloids have given her full-page coverage and have even supplied COUPONS for people to sign, clip and mail to the California Parole Authority! Never before!) Double standard? I guess.
But as screwy as the plot of "The Boys From Brazil" was, i.e. the cloning of dozens of Adolf Hitlers in the modern world, in a film made not very many years ago, what the Movement itself has been doing for over twenty years is even screwier: thinking that by dressing and acting like Hitler that similar results as his might be gained. There are those who deck themselves out– not in serious, dignified National Socialist attire– but in authentic World War Two German costumes complete with decorations, awards and insignia rank of that period. I don't know which is worse, rendering themselves utterly ridiculous or insulting the memory of genuine heroes. We have those who sport Hitler hairdos and moustaches and no fewer than at least one individual in the U.S. South who actually bills himself as "Adolf Hitler JUNIOR"! And people wonder where the term lunatic fringe comes from...
Worse and more destructive than the obvious clowns that no one takes seriously are the "Poor Men's Hitlers"– those who take themselves seriously and those who are taken seriously by the Movement as "leaders". Names need not be mentioned. Worse still is the actual syndrome I have often witnessed of those totally inferior and unworthy types who try and pattern themselves off these very same overblown losers all in the name of ego-caressing. With this as a general condition, it can be no wonder why the Movement is in a mess. And this has been one of the BIGGEST mistakes that I long ago swore to have nothing to do with in any of my own dealings. It is perhaps the easiest to spot as it is the easiest to steer away from of all the common pitfalls. The problem is it forces you out in search of fresh human resources as it will automatically eliminate 99% of the existing Movement as the hobbyists, weirdoes, freaks and geeks that they are.
[Vol. XII, # 4 – Apr., 1983]
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