[etni] Great "Genesis and Catastrophe" Links

Are you planning to teach "Genesis and Catastrophe" (Way Ahead 5, UPP). Here are a link to the movie which you can view online and a NYT article about a descendant of Adolph who grew up in New York State.

Tom
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Genesis and Catastrophe
The director of this short film is also the director of the feature film Darkness Falls.
Winner of best short at the Austin Film Festival
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/692149?htv=12

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Passing for ordinary, but related to Adolf Hitler
By Corey Kilgannon The New York Times
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/24/news/hitlers.php
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006

NEW YORK The suburban landscaper peeked out the door. It was another visitor arriving with a notebook, a press pass and the H-word on his lips, another journalist asking about his great-uncle Adolf.

The visitor asked the landscaper about his father, who was born William Patrick Hitler, son of Alois Hitler Jr., who was Adolf Hitler's half-brother (they had the same father). Alois called his son Willy. The F?hrer called Willy "my loathsome nephew."

Willy Hitler was born in 1911 in Liverpool and in his early years occasionally sought to take advantage of his last name, in England, in Germany and then in the United States, where he moved in 1939. After World War II, though, he decided to change the name and moved from New York to Patchogue, one of the Long Island suburbs. Before he died in 1987 at 76, he raised four sons: Alexander, Louis, Howard and Brian ... continues



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