These films document the national conventions of the NSDAP in 1933 and 1934. The 1934 film, Triumph of the Will, also qualifies as a great artistic achievement for the director, Leni Riefenstahl. Victory of Faith (also by Riefenstahl) is not
Year: 2010
Europe has always been a multicultural patchwork of nations. What Barbara Spector means by a multicultural Europe is one in which no traditional European people will have its own nation-state nor sovereignty over its own affairs. And who will play
“It became obvious that even the poorest folk-comrade was devoted to his nation, although he had never been conscious of it as his property. He knew nothing about the cultural merits of his country; he knew the names Wagner, Beethoven,
One emphasized the state; one emphasized race. By 1934 the supporters of the NSDAP included many recent converts from other ideologies, some of whom had supported the old order of the Prussian Monarchy, others (like Goebbels) who had been Marxists.
I have translated Goebbels’ 1934 speech Wesen und Gestalt des Nationalsozialismus and subdivided it into the following arguments:I. Clear communication about fundamental principles is the prerequisite for political unity. II. The National-Socialist takeover, although peaceful and legal, was a revolution:
Mein Leben für Irland! is an action-packed 1941 film from the Third Reich about the Irish struggle for independence against “Moloch England.” When you put your cursor on the video, icons will appear across the bottom of the screen: click
The Russian government is finally officially admitting the massacre by Soviet secret police of thousands of captured Polish army officers in 1940. This is a fact that most of the world, wherever the people were not saturated with war-propaganda, accepted
Tweet A little while ago somebody who likes to think of himself as a conservative called me a “revisionist” — which in current U.S. “conservative” political rhetoric amounts to calling me a liar, since these people are sure that all
The first regular television broadcasts in the world began in National-Socialist Germany in 1935 and ended in the fall of 1944. One of the most striking facts shown in this documentary, given no notice at all by the narrator, is
Regarding events in the six years prior to World War II, the usual interpretation that we are presented is that the passive and ambivalent Allies, who should have been enforcing the Treaty of Versailles and keeping the dangerous German war-machine
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