Germany's ugly legacy: Is Hitler's racist hatred back?

[Penguin]

what's wrong with facism???

What's wrong with you?

 

[C130]

What's wrong with Chinese Commies?

Chinese commies???? they don't exist anymore.

What's wrong with you?

I'd take Facism over Communism.
shame Hitler was homocidal and crazy.
Nazi Germany could of been a Superpower if they took it slow and not invaded every damn country.

 

[Penguin]

I'd take Facism over Communism.
shame Hitler was homocidal and crazy.
Nazi Germany could of been a Superpower if they took it slow and not invaded every damn country.

yuck (as in: pfui or beurk)

 

[Lord ZeN]

yuck

 

[Solomon2]

Hello there Fascism.How you've been doing in the last 70 years,long time no see.

Hitler comedy conquers German box offices

Look Who's Back, released in early October, in which the Führer awakes in modern-day Germany, is a phenomenal success in the motherland.

Amir Bogen

Published: 11.09.15, 15:17 / Israel Culture

BERLIN - The new German comedy Look Who's Back, presents Hitler as an archaic and ridiculous figure, forcing Germans to rethink their attitude to Hitler and his repressed legacy - and it's a big hit.

The film, directed by David Wnendt, is based on the provocative bestselling novel by Timur Vermes published in 2012 which describes an imaginary situation in which Hitler returns from the dead straight into the 21st century and tries to acclimate to the new Germany.

[video in original]

The same questions that arose when the 2004 German film Downfall, which depicted Hitler's final 10 days, came out are being asked again: Is it permissible to portray one of the most vicious murderers in human history as someone we can empathize with? Are we not running the risk of making his message acceptable?

“Germans should be able to laugh at Hitler, rather than viewing him as a monster, because that relieves him of responsibility for his deeds and diverts attention from his guilt for the Holocaust," Wnendt told the Guardian. “But it should be the type of laugh that catches in your throat and you’re almost ashamed when you realize what you’re doing.”

Hitler, played by actor Oliver Masucci, turns up in our world in 2014. He does not know that Germany was defeated and when he finds this out to his astonishment, he finds it hard to digest. He looks in amazement at the immigrants who, unlike him, have better acclimated to Berlin than him. Today's technology, particularly modern means of communication and the Internet, are science fiction for him.

Poster for Look Who's Back

And it is precisely this technology that sends Hitler right into the center of public debate in Germany. Those who come across him first treat him as a clown, but one with lots of guts. They know that Hitler is dead, but his imitator seems quite reliable and determined, and therefore strange and amusing. Sawatzki, played by Fabian Busch, a journalist who was fired from a popular TV show, captures him accidentally on camera and decides to save his career with a story about an eccentric man who pretends to be Hitler in today's Germany. A sort of German Borat.

Hitler in Look Who's Back

At this stage, Look Who's Back turns into a mockumentary comedy a la Sacha Baron Cohen, in which all kinds of people (allegedly not actors) are caught unawares and interact with Hitler. Responses were varied, with some even expressing a hope for his return. In context, it isn't entirely clear if this individuals are joking or if they are partially expressing a hidden desire that is not politically correct. Masucci claimed in interviews that these were authentic responses. It can be assumed that these were exaggerations in order to promote the film, but one can't deny that racism is rising to the surface once again amongst the German public, especially in extreme right-wing circles.

During the film, Hitler also becomes popular on a prime-time TV show. Viewers see it as a parody – after all he is only an imitator, not the Fuhrer himself. One can joke with him and give free reign to one's criticism of sanctimonious European liberalism and our racial passions. And so once again Adolf Hitler is sweeping away the masses. He gives fiery speeches and the crowd laughs and rollicks.

The sharp controversial humor of Look Who's Back is almost uninhibited, except for one point: the Jews. When the writing staff of Hitler's show are asked to provide offensive Holocaust jokes, they seem shocked - and so does the audience.

This is probably the reason why Hitler's open anti-Semitism is almost not at all present in the film and he rarely talks about his feelings toward the Jews. When he mentions the subject, the comedy stops and shock breaks out.

The film's success reconfirms the experiment for which the film was initially created: While Hitler himself is a cursed personality whose image triggers an allergic reaction amongst the majority of Germans (and is therefore suppressed and absent from their daily lives), his legacy still resounds in Berlin, Cologne and particularly in Rostock, Dresden and other cities of the east - strongholds of the extreme right movement Pegida.

 

[TMA]

Always remember that (official) history is written by the Victors.

Visit The Greatest Story NEVER Told - The Untold Story of Adolf Hitler for another view.

 

[oproh]

European economies are crumbling down left and right, they only have tiny influence in the world affairs these days and that too is eroding fast. A war in european soil is needed to stimulate their economy.

 

[Penguin]

Germanys ugly legacy: Is Hitlers racist hatred back? - Daily Sabah

Asks Sabah Daily, the English language mouthpiece of the Turkish AKP [JDP]. Just so we know who'se talking.

what's wrong with facism???

You have to ask? Really?

European economies are crumbling down left and right, they only have tiny influence in the world affairs these days and that too is eroding fast. A war in european soil is needed to stimulate their economy.

Likewise the Philippines (good luck facing China)

 

[fallstuff]

You break it, you own it !!!

 

[Henry ME 95]

erdogan propaganda, the answer is no. there is nothing wrong with fascism and fascism and Nazism are two different things.
and those are my two cents

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

erdogan propaganda, the answer is no. there is nothing wrong with fascism and fascism and Nazism are two different things.
and those are my two cents

You have to be kidding me. I have to emphasize how absolutely evil fascism is because apparently in high school this isn't taught enough.

Fascism is directly opposed to both democractic capitalism and socialism. it rejects both equality of birth (democracy) and equality of opportunity (socialism). It in fact rejects "liberty, equality, fraternity" - the basic tenements of democracy established in the French Revolution that almost all modern states, at least in theory, adhere to. It rejects as wrong the premises of human rights and individual choice. Note that almost all modern countries share at least a nominal respect for democracy, equality and individual choice.

 

[Koovie]

what's wrong with facism???

Everything your nation stands for is pretty much against fascism. Fascism is cancer.

 

[Schutz]

European economies are crumbling down left and right, they only have tiny influence in the world affairs these days and that too is eroding fast. A war in european soil is needed to stimulate their economy.

lol, EU is the biggest economy in the world slightly ahead of the USA and then the rest by quite a margin, almost double China. You really never know what your on about do you.

 

[Kahraman99]

Hitler declared Turks as a race above slavic russian, greek and Serbian, Armenian subhumans.

 

[Penguin]

erdogan propaganda, the answer is no. there is nothing wrong with fascism and fascism and Nazism are two different things.
and those are my two cents

Fascism

"An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization."
"(In general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices"

The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43); the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach

Origin:
1920s: from Italian fascismo, from fascio 'bundle, political group', from Latin fascis (see fasces).

fascism - definition of fascism in English from the Oxford dictionary

Nazism

"The political principles of the National Socialist German Workers' Party"
"Extreme racist or authoritarian views or behaviour:"

Nazism - definition of Nazism in English from the Oxford dictionary

Yea, very different, as in Nazism being a more specific subset of Fascism....

Of course there is nothing wrong with fascism, if you happen to believe you and your group are superior to others in your society, that you and your group deserve to rule the nation (even as a minorty), that you and your group have the right to enforce strict compliance with the ideas of your group's leader, that you are willing to submit as an individual to an all-knowing leader, and that the masses are mindless and sugggestable herds that can be steered with propaganda. Then, if you believ that, naturally, there is nothing with fascism.

Your leader tells you 'the earth is flat', then it must be flat, and you never go on to explore if that is really true..... that is just great, isn't it?

Hitler declared Turks as a race above slavic russian, greek and Serbian, Armenian subhumans.

Goody for the Turks?