Crap, I don’t recall the name of the show, but was that the same one that was giving the German perspective on the “appeal” Hitler had?
I caught part of one this week that had interviews of Germans giving their version of events at the time indicating why Germans followed the Nazis as willfully as they did.
The “appeal” of hitler was part of it but it seems that he was never as popular as we tend to think. Hitler rose to power on equal parts apathy, fear, anger, community organizing, manufactured crisis etc.
In the the homemade films you could see the fear in the eyes of some of the people as they gave the nazi salute. Diary entries from people who said they didn’t believe the official story on the reichstag fire but they didn’t mind being watched because they hadn’t done anything wrong. Other stories talked about the loss of their children to the reich.
Most telling was the opening narration that said something along the lines of “We didn’t all support the reich but we were all guilty. We all breathed the same air”.
Crap, I don’t recall the name of the show, but was that the same one that was giving the German perspective on the “appeal” Hitler had?
I caught part of one this week that had interviews of Germans giving their version of events at the time indicating why Germans followed the Nazis as willfully as they did.
The documentary “The World at War” has two episodes that chronicle the war from start to end entierly from the German perspective. Gives a good insight into how an entire nation of rational people could go down a road that is (in retrospect) insane.