Saturday, January 7

Hitler's Children: Would you Let it go?!

I watched this documentary-like movie called Hitler's Children, made by an Israeli, a few days ago and I have to say that despite my all interests in history, movies and mainly documentaries, I was not impressed at all. Very poor work by an amateur, I'd like to call it. Everything is bad in this movie: The subject (the plot), filming, length, actors/actresses, you name it! Let's look at each so you understands why I dislike this movie and do not recommend it. 
The subject of this so-called documentary, which was made in 2011, is to target and attack the grandchildren and other descendants of prominent German officers during the Second European War (1939-1945) which is incorrectly known as the Second World War, by the public, because that's what the Europeans want! They show them one by one and either ask them questions or they talk about their relatives of the past themselves. One them is a lady named Betina Goering whom Herman Goering is her great uncle and they bomb her with stupid questions about him! What are you trying to achieve? Sympathy?!! Remorse?!! I'm younger than that lady and I, like any other normal human being, despise what the Germans did in Europe in the 40's love the country now and I don't think of Germans as what their ancestors were 80 years ago, not the majority of them. What do you expect a grand-nice of a former high ranking German officer during the 40's, in Europe say to you on camera?! Are you stupid? 
Heinrich Himmler, second from right, a former high ranking officer when the Nazi party was in power in Germany. He died in the hands of the British, mysteriously, in the last days of the war
Then comes the granddaughter(!) of the brother(!) of Heinrich Himmler another high ranking former German officer during the time that the Nazi party was in power. The poor woman had to write a book that how Heinrich got to what he was and how the other brothers were, possibly just to clear herself. 
The first question is how could you possibly blame someone for something that his ancestors did decades ago?! And what your intention is question them for that? Shame them? Benito Mussolini was the former dictator of Italy, in case you didn't know. He was a close ally of Hitler and was caught at the last days of the war and hung. His grand-daughter then became a member of parliament! What about that?  
As per these people who were interviewed, I honestly don't know what their intention might have been? Did they accept to appear in the film because they felt guilty? Did they forced to or were under pressure? Did they simply want to take that off of their chest? Either way that was not necessary. 0.5 out of 5 for this so called documentary! Next time do a documentary with whoever is left from the Kennedy family and question them about his decisions during Vietnam War!
Dachau Concentration Camp, autumn 2014 when I visited Germany. This is close to Munich. The guard's tower, the barbed wire fence and the moat is left almost intact. There must have been some preservation, of course. The rocks in wooden frame is where the prisoner's barracks were. All are gone today. A few building inn the south side which is not seen are preserved for administrative and show purposes. All funded and supported by big Jewish corporations.
One other person and this was a true idiot was an old guy going school to school saying that he hates his parents for what they had done! Or grandparents, doesn't matter. And he had written a book too and would read it to the students and then this idiot filmmaker, the Israeli guy was showing him driving a Mercedes around! Bought with the money he had made cursing at his own parents! Regardless of what his parents or grandparents have done, it's no way to make a living! 
The last guy was a guy in his early to mid. 50's who went to Dachau alongside a child or grandchild of a survivor of Holocaust.  I've been to what is left from Dachau. The barracks are long gone but the guard's tower, the barbed wire, the moat and some other things have been left the way they were built 80 years ago. There's no admission for the place so you can see flocks of people, including school kids going in every day. There were a bunch of Israeli students with their flags there the day when this guy was there and the guy was either the son or grandson of the camp commandant who was shown in Schindler's List and the funny and strange thing at the same time is they lived just outside the camp on a beautiful big house! The guy is introduced to the kids and they are told that they can ask him questions!! That was really ridiculous! It was as ridiculous and meaningless as the Nuremberg Trail! One girl asks him why he was there and the guy looked scared and confused and I don't know whether that was him or the screenplay(!) and he couldn't answer well! I would've said: I'm here to see what this place looks like. It's hard for me to feel what the poor people who lost their lives or survived here, felt but I believe now it helps to sense their pain. I feel disgust for what my parents/grandparents did and if I faced them, I'd say to them that I can not have any association with them any more. The last sentence would be my answer to another question that the guy was asked: What would you say to your parents if you saw them now? And the idiot said: I would kill him?! Obviously he was confused, under the pressure and scared but the fact that he was an idiot helped him to come up with this answer! 
(Photo, top: Herman Goering was a pilot during the 1914-1918 War in Europe and then was a top officer during the time that Nazi party was in power in Germany. He was stripped of his position by Hitler in the last days of the war because he had a plan to negotiate with the Americans. He was captured and tried and before any sentence is executed, he committed suicide) 

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