whoarmongar |
02-07-2012 05:17 PM |
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Originally Posted by David Hayward
(Post 388594)
Yeah, good luck to anyone making a movie showing the "good" Nazis.
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I could envisage a film about a "Good Nazi" being a success if released at the moment.
The anti-hero seems to be in vogue at the moment, look at a series like "Dexter" a huge hit, where the hero is a serial killer. Once upon a time vampires were evil, stank like the grave and were certainly all badies deserving nothing more than a stake through the heart, preferably during the day whilst they slept and were defenceless. Now theyre sexy misunderstood teenage characters that teenage girls want to snog.
The Nazis didnt come to power in Germany with a manifesto that said, First were going to create a police state within Germany and murder anyone who opposes us, then were going to launch an allout total war against all our european neighbours bombing defenceless cities and occuping these countries, then we will launch a barbarous inhumane attack against Russia. Finally we will systematically murder millions of jews and other "undesirables"simply because we dont think they diserve to live.
The Nazis come to power promising to "fix" a broken country blaming the western powers the bolshoviks and "Jewish bankers" (a not totally unreasonable argument at the time) for Germanys ills, this arguement could easily seduce any idealist patriotic German at the time. Thus many a "good man" could have ended up being party members,or in the SS.
The escalation of atrocities from breaking windows to final solution would have caught many people up and implicated them as time went by, a gradual corruption of a persons moral being.
Throw in a persons loyalty to his squad mates created by combat during war time, and the stress created by war, combat,loss and fear and its easy to see that this person may have doubts and be terribly conflicted, but would simply concentrate on the job in hand ie simply follow orders.
I actually think it would be a good plot for a film, but I doubt anyfilm maker would have the courage to produce it.
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