I'm not sure whether this can be graced with the name "documentary", for it contains little fact whatsoever. It plays along with the old trope "the victor writes the history". Yet this is not the case; for instance, the narrative that Hitler fixed the German economy (when in reality, it was Hjalmar Schacht), the narrative of Dresden being completely demilitarized, which is a relic of German propaganda. Or that the rapes in East Germany were the biggest mass rapes in history, which is an invention of the Post-War defeated Germans. Or that the German people didn't know about the Holocaust, which is an invention of the Post-War defeated Germans.
The film is an exercise in tu quoque - it tries to whitewash the awful crimes of Germany in an effort to make both the Soviets and the allies appear worse. It states that it is the fault of the victorious entente that Post-War Germany's economy underwent hyperinflation, which can be blamed on the terrible mismanagement of the economy by the Weimar government, principally their printing of money. They refer to Hitler's award of Time magazine as a good thing, when if they had bothered to read even the wikipedia article on the topic, they would have found that the Person of the year award is granted to "a person, group, idea or object that for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year", hence the award to Iosif Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeni, etc.
The notion that the Germans had been forced into war is, again, ridiculous. Germany invaded Poland as part of its project of "Lebensraum" in the east, which involved (as per Generalplan Ost) the systematic execution of untold millions of people. Germany was hardly forced to reduce eighty per cent of Warsaw into rubble, or starve hundreds of thousands of Dutch people, or kill one hundred Yugoslavs for every soldier lost to partisans.
Everyone committed crimes during WW2: the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fire-bombings of German cities (although their efficacy is often unfairly demeaned), the mass rapes that were committed by both the Soviet Union and Germany, the Bataan Death March and the Crimes of unit 731, and the Holocaust. Things like the Rhine Meadows Death Camp, however, are fantasy.
Hellstorm is trying to combat a problem which doesn't exist. The German people of WW2 are greatly sympathized with (moreso than the Soviets, despite their much greater woes), and trying to antagonize the Jewish people is unproductive, as is the claim that they are in control of the media. One parting thought about that: if Jews do control the media, then why do we hear about Israeli atrocities against Palestinians? When a Jew is killed by a rocket attack, we hear little about it bar a brief mention, and yet Palestinian citizens killed by overzealous retaliation, quite rightly get a lot of media focus, such as Baby Ali last month.
To re-iterate my overall message - don't watch this "documentary". I have, and now I live with the knowledge that I wasted one and a half hours of my life on it.
The film is an exercise in tu quoque - it tries to whitewash the awful crimes of Germany in an effort to make both the Soviets and the allies appear worse. It states that it is the fault of the victorious entente that Post-War Germany's economy underwent hyperinflation, which can be blamed on the terrible mismanagement of the economy by the Weimar government, principally their printing of money. They refer to Hitler's award of Time magazine as a good thing, when if they had bothered to read even the wikipedia article on the topic, they would have found that the Person of the year award is granted to "a person, group, idea or object that for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year", hence the award to Iosif Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeni, etc.
The notion that the Germans had been forced into war is, again, ridiculous. Germany invaded Poland as part of its project of "Lebensraum" in the east, which involved (as per Generalplan Ost) the systematic execution of untold millions of people. Germany was hardly forced to reduce eighty per cent of Warsaw into rubble, or starve hundreds of thousands of Dutch people, or kill one hundred Yugoslavs for every soldier lost to partisans.
Everyone committed crimes during WW2: the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fire-bombings of German cities (although their efficacy is often unfairly demeaned), the mass rapes that were committed by both the Soviet Union and Germany, the Bataan Death March and the Crimes of unit 731, and the Holocaust. Things like the Rhine Meadows Death Camp, however, are fantasy.
Hellstorm is trying to combat a problem which doesn't exist. The German people of WW2 are greatly sympathized with (moreso than the Soviets, despite their much greater woes), and trying to antagonize the Jewish people is unproductive, as is the claim that they are in control of the media. One parting thought about that: if Jews do control the media, then why do we hear about Israeli atrocities against Palestinians? When a Jew is killed by a rocket attack, we hear little about it bar a brief mention, and yet Palestinian citizens killed by overzealous retaliation, quite rightly get a lot of media focus, such as Baby Ali last month.
To re-iterate my overall message - don't watch this "documentary". I have, and now I live with the knowledge that I wasted one and a half hours of my life on it.