Ilsa's hair blew like silk in the soft Parisian breeze. Rick looked 10 years younger driving his sportster down Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe was in the distance. Young, radiant, Ilsa was the most beautiful woman in the world. Every man who ever saw her instantly fell in love with her, myself included. The German army was only a day from entering Paris, but that didn't stop Rick from proposing to Ilsa in La Belle Aurore as Sam played AS TIME GOES BY. That Ilsa didn't meet Rick in the pounding rain at the train station as they had planned to take it to Marseille on their way to Casablanca foreshadowed the protracted, brutal war the Nazis had already begun one conquest after another across Europe. But ****** was not prescient enough to realize "...a kiss is just a kiss...." and in his Berlin bunker first swallowed a cyanide capsule then put the muzzle of his revolver into his mouth and pulled the trigger, his only constructive act since becoming Chancellor in 1933.