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The Living Force
An interesting revisionist WWII documentary has been passed around on Facebook: _http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14336C517D31C52D (parts are still being made by the documentary maker - as of now, there are 20 parts).
The really good thing about it is the broader historical perspective it brings. It gives a stark picture of the machinations generally not gone into on the other sides of the conflict. In viewing it with additional knowledge in mind, it becomes clear that the events surrounding and including WWII was a game played by psychopaths on all sides.
In so digesting the information, I was struck by how cartoonish the view in official culture is on the matter of Nazi Germany - with such exclusive emphasis on its evilness that the result is a lack of historical comprehension. The inhumanity and the pathology is there, to be sure - and so it is on all the other sides of the conflict as well. As one example, American forces starving one and a half million Germans taken prisoner - including civilians - to death in camps set up for a time in Germany after the capitulation at the end of the war. In also showing something of the more human side of the Wehrmacht, it likewise - to the viewer with knowledge of ponerology - makes clear, upon reflection, that the real conflict was indeed one of normal people with principles and conscience - present on all sides - and the inhuman element - likewise present on all sides.
As Nazi Germany became less cartoonish, the historical parallels with today became even clearer. Another effect of the documentary was a loss of lingering faith and identification with the narratives of official culture that I didn't even know was there. In the end I had simply seen too much that contradicts the standard narrative, sometimes in shocking ways, and some remaining "thing" inside gave way. But in order to get there, I first had to watch a couple of parts at a time, digest, and several times deal with cognitive dissonance - additional knowledge and perspective serving to arrive at a good synthesis.
As a caveat, the bad thing about the documentary is the line of force of the presentation, best taken with a grain of salt - additional knowledge kept in mind. In short, the maker of the documentary seems to be somewhat fascinated by and admiring and uncritical of Hitler, the Nazi administration and the Third Reich. In the documentary itself, this is, in places, manifested in the points of emphasis and/or the "tone" in dealing with these things, though it remains factual. (Outside of the documentary, the maker reveals his bias in some of his comments in discussion on YouTube, as well as, in looking at the videos on one of his previous YouTube accounts, deephiddentruth, the several tributes to Hitler that he has made.)
All in all, I'd say it's very much well-worth watching. With the standard historical narrative presented from the Zionist point of view, seeing a documentary presented from the "other side", with much information generally omitted, was interesting.
To understand Nazi Germany more throroughly, I'm reading Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler (thread; there's also articles and excerpts on SOTT) - while perhaps a peculiar combination, it seems a good supplement to this documentary.
The really good thing about it is the broader historical perspective it brings. It gives a stark picture of the machinations generally not gone into on the other sides of the conflict. In viewing it with additional knowledge in mind, it becomes clear that the events surrounding and including WWII was a game played by psychopaths on all sides.
In so digesting the information, I was struck by how cartoonish the view in official culture is on the matter of Nazi Germany - with such exclusive emphasis on its evilness that the result is a lack of historical comprehension. The inhumanity and the pathology is there, to be sure - and so it is on all the other sides of the conflict as well. As one example, American forces starving one and a half million Germans taken prisoner - including civilians - to death in camps set up for a time in Germany after the capitulation at the end of the war. In also showing something of the more human side of the Wehrmacht, it likewise - to the viewer with knowledge of ponerology - makes clear, upon reflection, that the real conflict was indeed one of normal people with principles and conscience - present on all sides - and the inhuman element - likewise present on all sides.
As Nazi Germany became less cartoonish, the historical parallels with today became even clearer. Another effect of the documentary was a loss of lingering faith and identification with the narratives of official culture that I didn't even know was there. In the end I had simply seen too much that contradicts the standard narrative, sometimes in shocking ways, and some remaining "thing" inside gave way. But in order to get there, I first had to watch a couple of parts at a time, digest, and several times deal with cognitive dissonance - additional knowledge and perspective serving to arrive at a good synthesis.
As a caveat, the bad thing about the documentary is the line of force of the presentation, best taken with a grain of salt - additional knowledge kept in mind. In short, the maker of the documentary seems to be somewhat fascinated by and admiring and uncritical of Hitler, the Nazi administration and the Third Reich. In the documentary itself, this is, in places, manifested in the points of emphasis and/or the "tone" in dealing with these things, though it remains factual. (Outside of the documentary, the maker reveals his bias in some of his comments in discussion on YouTube, as well as, in looking at the videos on one of his previous YouTube accounts, deephiddentruth, the several tributes to Hitler that he has made.)
All in all, I'd say it's very much well-worth watching. With the standard historical narrative presented from the Zionist point of view, seeing a documentary presented from the "other side", with much information generally omitted, was interesting.
To understand Nazi Germany more throroughly, I'm reading Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler (thread; there's also articles and excerpts on SOTT) - while perhaps a peculiar combination, it seems a good supplement to this documentary.