Rare Hitler Footage Found In Local Home

Last week, five Staten Island teen-agers who had [defaced a North Shore synagogue] with swastikas in May met with Rabbi Jacob Jungreis of Brooklyn, a Holocaust survivor. Not that there’s any connection, but rare movie footage of Adolf Hitler chilling with his cronies was discovered in a [Staten Island basement](http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/612027.php?contentType=4&contentId=636129) 10 years prior to that.

Apparently, U.S. serviceman Walter Ladziak discovered the reel in a [German opera house] and sent it home to his brother-in-law, where it lay, forgotten, for a decade. Upon his death, Ladziak’s nephew sent the footage, showing Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler taking in a [Richard Wagner music festival ](http://www.1010wins.com/pages/613301.php?contentType=4&contentId=637384)prior to World War II, to PBS, which will air it on “[The History Detectives](http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/)” this September.

Meanwhile, the Pentecostal bus driver fired by the MTA for [refusing to wear pants] will receive legal help thanks to an Orthodox Jewish organization called Agudath Israel of America. If you remember, transit officials told Tahita Jenkins, 33, that wearing a skirt to work, in accordance with Pentecostalism, would endanger her passengers’ safety. But Eric Stern, whose firm, Sack & Sack, is now handling the case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, says that’s only an after-thought, and that the real issue is modesty—as evident by the MTA’s offer to allow Jenkins to wear [culottes](http://www.nypost.com/seven/05312007/news/regionalnews/skirt_the_issue_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan_________transit_reporter.htm), which, as she explained, are “just wide pants,” and, might I add, equally “dangerous.”