The documentary is very informative and gives a person a more in depth look into the men behind the second world war and the thinking that led up to it. And it also gives you from the mouths of Germans who lived through it, a sense of what it was like living in Nazi Germany. A question I always had personally was, "why did the Nazis pick the Jews as a focal point for their hatred" ? Because there are Jews where I live and they're not hindering my life or any aspects of it. And the video leads you to believe that it wasn't pure racism or religion that made the Nazis hate them, it was that Jewish Communists were blamed for the "Armistice" of the Great War. And the fact of the matter is that Jewish Communists actually were the leaders of left wing militant groups that were revolting and creating unrest in Germany during and after the Great War. So in defense of the German population of the time I ask this, "would American citizens treat those they viewed as domestic terrorists any better?" we have executed most major domestic terrorists or buried them under a jail, does our general public stand up on their behalf? There is no justification for the state sponsored extermination of an entire people, but this video helps you to understand why many German citizens did not risk their lives or the lives of their families in defense of who they were told were domestic terrorists. The video itself does not imply that but that is what I personally took away from it. A lot of historians talk about how the German population should have done something, well what did the American public do when our Government and groups sponsored by our Government were systematically exterminating the Native population of this land? A whole lot of nothing is what they did. And what is left of the Native population is still largely "concentrated" on Reservations, living is most cases on full dependence of the state. When you look at things in such a broad view it opens your mind so much. Most other Americans I have this discussion with won't even address the situation, they say "oh get over it that was so long ago" and they consider me un-American or unpatriotic and I do not care, what's right is right. You cannot judge the German citizens of the time for not doing something that our own people were unwilling to do, it is pure hipocracy, which does seem to reign supreme in our country. Our fight for independence from England is looked upon as a just cause, but the Palestinians' fight for freedom from oppression from Israel is looked at as terrorism, why? why was our cause more just than theirs is? Just because Palestine is the biblical homeland of the Jews thousands of years ago does not mean that they should have rights to it now all of a sudden because they needed a place to escape to from Europe in the 20th Century. Also funny how our country and even Britain knew of the Jews plight before we entered the war and we didn't step in on their behalf then either. The same way the Muslims are fighting a war for what they believe is to make the world safe for Islam, we fought wars to make the world safe for Democracy, why is one more evil than the other? Even in a Democracy you don't have any guaranteed rights, yours rights are issued to you by your Government and can be revoked at any time, in America you have the right to bear arms "unless you have a Felony" you have a right to remain silent "but then they just charge you with obstructing justice". For every so called freedom we have the Government has a way of denying us that freedom whenever it pleases. So how is a Democracy different than a Dictatorship? We only think it is different because we have the deluded illusion that we control who goes into office, which is untrue. In the end yo have to have tons of money and the backing of the people who are already making decisions in this country in order to get elected. It is all a sham, and we are just as brainwashed or complacent as the Germans were. Just that the Nazis at least were honest in the sense that their ideology was that the individual is secondary to the state, here we are told that we are totally free, unless you have enough intelligence to read the small print. My father paid cash for his house, never owed any bank or anyone a dime, but unless he keeps a job so that he can afford the thousands of dollars a year in taxes it can be taken from him at any time, that to me sounds like surf-dom, work to fuel the state or be stripped of everything, and then they will not only take everything from you they will jail you for back taxes. I always tell my father that he should've just rented a nice apartment, he wouldn't have to cut grass or shovel snow or pay for maintenence, no huge upfront cost, you're paying rent either way, just to the Government as your landlord instead of a fellow citizen or corporation. Sorry to make this sound like a political forum, the video is great I highly recommend it.
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Anyone who thinks a large, overreaching government will necessarily be a good thing for people should get this series and become informed as to the historical realities it shows. While often described as "right wing," the Nazis were Socialists (members of the National Socialist German Workers Party) and thus were always blood brothers of their main rivals - the Communists. The final episode of this series ends with the ominous words of anti-Nazi German philosopher Karl Jaspers -- "That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen at any minute." Indeed!Charles Cole,Author: In Russian Wonderland: An American's Odyssey in Soviet Russia
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