Television Under The Swastika (Documentary)

[Tigersoap]

Michael Kloft's documentary on the history of Nazi television. Legend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the 'fifties. But in reality its origins hark back much further. As early as the 'thirties, a bitter rivalry raged for the world's first television broadcast. Nazi Germany wanted to beat the competition from Great Britain and the U.S. - at all costs. Reich Broadcast Director Hadamovsky christened the new-born "Greater German Television" in March 1935. And it was only in September 1944 that the last program flickered across the TV screens. For a long time the belief persisted that only very few Nazi programs had survived, but SPIEGEL TV has now succeeded in tracking down a stock of television films and reports which have remained intact since the end of the Third Reich. These include extensive coverage of the 1936 National Socialist Party Convention in Nuremberg which recalls today's live broadcasts, and of a 1937 visit Benito Mussolini paid to Berlin. Interviews ...

_http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1992130789606468647&hl=en#


I just watched a part of it but I thought it was interesting to see the beginning of television programs linked to the Nazis and their propaganda.

 

[Mikey]

Thank you Tigersoap, that was fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Especially when you see how little TV has changed since before WWII: cooking shows, dancing, sports, politics. It was shocking when they showed doctors performing "racial experiments", taking physical dimensions of the population. Shocking also was the documentary at 19 minutes 45 seconds, where the speaker said: "... for the animals know that the hunters are their best friends". :O

All in all, Political Ponerology in action.

 

[Tigersoap]

It's really interesting for the archive footages and I was really uneasy watching this.
I wonder how many nazis brought this idea back in the US after WWII and developped it to become what it is today.
Not much has changed indeed, it just got finely tuned with time osit.

 

[Niall]

Yes, the transition from the 3rd Reich to the City on a Hill was seamless. Interesting find Tigersoap, I watched parts of the video. The stark raving pathology from Goebbels (and even much lesser minions) is difficult to listen to, even in tiny morsels from archives over 60 years old. I thought it interesting that the Nazi rallies and party propaganda broadcasts could never approach the viewer ratings they picked up for the 1936 Olympics, leaving the Nazi leadership somewhat disappointed with the concept of TV programming.

Operation Paperclip and a few CIA experiments later, TV programming began to get the mix right - substantially sports/entertainment/trivia saturation of the mind, interspersed with bursts of propaganda, allowed the US to take over the world by stealth.

 

[Pagan]

That was a facinating documentary!

 

[rrraven]

Operation Paperclip and a few CIA experiments later, TV programming began to get the mix right - substantially sports/entertainment/trivia saturation of the mind, interspersed with bursts of propaganda, allowed the US to take over the world by stealth.

yep the ''Nazis'' never ''lost'' WW2 they just moved headquarters for a better shot at world domination

 

[Voyageur]

It's really interesting for the archive footages and I was really uneasy watching this.
I wonder how many nazis brought this idea back in the US after WWII and developped it to become what it is today.
Not much has changed indeed, it just got finely tuned with time osit.

Watched this the other night and it was very interesting; surreal even. Remember reading about the propaganda values utilized at the time and Radio was of course the dominant factor. The orator Hitler broadcasting out to a nation hidden from their reality behind the frequency wave that was beamed into false hearths and minds.

In this documentary above there was mention that approximately 10,000 people viewed said broadcasts during the time and even at that some seemed not very interested in the medium; quality likely. Well here we are more than a half decade later and this medium dominates in many lives and has evolved to such an extent that the very psychological association of the viewer is a study unto itself - and they are proficient with using these tools to steer people hither and yonder it seems.

After watching the documentary was vectored to the following, which is essentially a historical propagandist film that paints the scene the way that was useful for the PTB. Not said of course were the lines of nations, their foreign policy's and intelligence manipulating everyone along the line and the Chinese people suffering under the thug warlords and revolutionaries as well as other nations imperialistic designs and warfare affronts - killing and looting as usual. The documentary however does depict the timelines of "ideas and guns" that so impacted the people of China.


History of China: The Roots of Madness - CIA Cold War Documentary Film (1967)

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRpwp00Pwc

China: The Roots of Madness is a 1967 Cold War era, made-for-TV documentary film produced by David L. Wolper, written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Theodore H. White with production cost funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.

The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American's perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution. The film focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, amid heavy political intervention from Moscow, with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong playing the pivotal role at the center stage.

The documentary film was made for television in 1967 -- during the Cold War era. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Theodore H. White, directed by Mel Stuart, edited by William T. Cartwright and produced by David L. Wolper. Production costs were funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. White's access to important political figures of the time allowed him to create some rare footage, which included the wedding of Chang Kai-shek and the funeral of Sun Yat-sen. The film won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.

As evidenced by his commentary throughout the films, White, Time magazine's China correspondent during World War II, was scathing about the People's Republic of China. Remarking that Chinese had been suffering in a 100-year tragedy, he added:
"There are 700 millions Chinese [in 1967], one quarter of humane kind, who are taught to hate, their growing power is the world's greatest threat to peace enlightenment. 50 years of torment, bred madness..."

For 50 years, Americans have failed to help the Chinese to find "some entry to the modern world", as the Chinese have "been transformed from our greatest friend into our greatest enemy", as the Chinese have fallen into the vicious cycle of "from the tyranny of Confucius of the Manchu Emperor to the tyranny of communism and Mao".

White referred to Empress Dowager Cixi as "China's evil spirit... a Manchu concubine...said to have poisoned her own son upon his throne, install her infant nephew as the emperor, killed his mother, and then imprisoned him in 1898".

Pearl Buck on the Boxer Rebellion:"Empress Dowager had issued an decree that all white people are to be killed, and many have been killed, especially in the north of Shandong, men, women and children of the missionary."

White's impression on the downfall of Qing Dynasty: "...and then it vanished, simply vanished, the Manchu Dynasty disappeared overnight, nothing like that had ever happen in all the history, 2000 years of tradition, the whole structure of the imperial confucianism, political thought, dissolving to dust..."

White's impression on post-Manchu Empire China:"...out of this turbulence, there appeared two types of Asian leaders, arch symbols, the the man of gun, and the man of idea, and these two types of gunman and the dreamer, have perplexed all our efforts in Asia for 50 years since, and they still perplexed and haunted all our policy, even today..."

White's impression on Sun Yat-sen:"...was a man of dream, the dream of China, powerful, free of emperors and foreigners, made him from his youth a revolutionary...Slowly from the early 1920, Sun Yatsen had somehow built a government, a tiny southern foothold at Canton, ringed by hostile warlords. By 1924 the ageing revolutionary had learned, idea and gun must go together...in 1923 he tells the New York Times: We have lost hope of help from America, England, France, the only country that show any sign of helping us in the south is the Soviet government of Russia..."

White on Kuomingtang left wing: "[they] no longer trust their army leader at the front. Borodin is urging: 'Get rid of Chiang Kaishek.' In four short years, the communist had grown 60,000 members. To hear the left wing Nationalist: 'No revolution is completed, until peasants own their land, and workers their factories.' Chiang disagreed."

While the film won an Emmy Award in the documentary category soon after its release, contemporary critics have criticised his "callous and condescending" portrayal of Chinese. Film Threat remarked that White never attempted to take on board the Chinese viewpoint, and points out there were unconfirmed rumours that the CIA was involved in the film's making.

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China:_The_Roots_of_Madness

 

[Ca.]

Operation Paperclip and a few CIA experiments later, TV programming began to get the mix right - substantially sports/entertainment/trivia saturation of the mind, interspersed with bursts of propaganda, allowed the US to take over the world by stealth.

yep the ''Nazis'' never ''lost'' WW2 they just moved headquarters for a better shot at world domination

Some interest Characters, that were instrumental to the condition leading to the crumbling world economic situation, and the connection's to Nazi underground 4th Reich.

Ameriquest Founder Reaps Benefit of Subprime Lending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFMZxkA9lsQ&feature=player_embedded

Totally sleazy, morally insulting, Commercials, Related to Ameriquest ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameriquest_Mortgage ), Its as if they had targeted a certain segment of the population for the predatory lending practices, that were influential as to stimulate a certain unconsciousness as opposed to being repulsed to this type media manipulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV0TPobnjVo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKAo8Nl6kc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVY_d-p6uw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsutYN2si7k


Dave Emory-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Emory ), For the Record-note: not sure where this commentator intentions lies, but this is a good pod cast of the relationship to what been mentioned from other post, about the snoszie connection.

August 15, 2011: FTR #690 Update on the Melt­down, Part 5: Who and What Was Roland Arnall?
http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=41420&archive=71130

FTR #671 Update on the Melt­down, Part 4: Ger­many, the Under­ground Reich and the Global Finan­cial Melt­down.
http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=41420&archive=71130