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Volker Schlondorff is an Academy Award-winning German filmmaker who has focused on many aspects of German culture and history, but vowed never to make a movie about concentration camps -- until now. The Ninth Day tells the story of a priest who is torn between what is best for the church and his people.

Stalin, a biography by Oxford University historian Robert Service, adopts a new view of the Soviet leader. Service says Josef Stalin was not the uneducated and coarse man he was often perceived to be. In fact, Service says, Stalin deliberately fashioned that image for himself.

China abruptly cut short a visit by one of its senior officials to Japan. The trip was meant to be a fence-mending effort after anti-Japan protests in China. Beijing now is unhappy with the Japanese prime minister's plan to visit a controversial shrine that includes convicted war criminals among its honorees.

During an earlier speech in the former Soviet Republic of Latvia, President Bush said that America played a role in the suffering of Eastern Europe following World War II. He blamed concessions made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 1945 Yalta summit. Host Steve Inskeep talks to Daniel Hamilton of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies about the history behind the President Bush's unexpected comments.

President Bush and other world leaders joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's Red Square Monday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Bush wraps up his five-day trip with a stop in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, where the "Rose Revolution" diminished Russian influence.

While audiences recognize Hitler as a real figure, many may not be aware that Max is a fictional creation. This blurring of fact and fiction concerns Morris Casudo, regional director of the San Diego Office of the Anti-Defamation League.

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