The band's founder, leader, principle songwriter and bassist, Juan Formell, was not there.
The thing he most admired about Hitler was the 'Führer princip' - the strong leader principle.
The film's endorsement of "the leader principle," Urwand says, "enforced this central aspect of Nazi ideology," and he calls "Lives," a likably silly adventure film, Nazi propaganda.
The Nazis liked the rule-Britannia, pro-imperialist adventure movie "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer," with Gary Cooper, because, for them, it embraced "the leader principle".
As early as July 1921 he had declared the Führerprinzip ("leader principle") to be the law of the Nazi Party; and in Mein Kampf (1925 27) he asserted that such a dictatorship would be extended to the coming Third Reich.
Although it failed to use the Protestant church as a hub to create a new civil religion (more of an uncivil religion), Mein Kampf became the 'holy book' in this religion; Hitler himself was the highest sacred authority, known as the Führerprinzip (leader principle), which meant that the Führer's word was beyond written law.
Hitler ruled the NSDAP autocratically by asserting the Führerprinzip ("Leader principle").
Hitler ruled Germany autocratically by asserting the Führerprinzip (leader principle), which called for absolute obedience of all subordinates.
Real fascism is Nazi Germany's "leader principle" - which dictated absolute obedience to the Führer, whose authority was understood to be above the law.
In spite of this, the CPC is led by an informal leader principle, each collective leadership is led by a core, that is a paramount leader; a person who holds the offices of CPC General Secretary, CMC chairman and President of the PRC.
The first slow and cumbersome horse-drawn rail traffic posed few control problems not resolved by follow-the-leader principles.
