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As per 21.06.2012 it has only 1 minor goof

posted 13 years ago by AndreiPavlov
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Factual errors
This film states that Charlie Chaplin was a Jew. In reality, he was raised Anglican and later professed to be Agnostic. When asked if he was Jewish, he reportedly said, "I do not have such an honor".
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And that's it? Some pointless "Commando" has a detailed account of errors. And this documentary is one of the most POINTED movies ever made.

General phrases like "hateful propaganda" are groovy but to see a definite list of all goofs would be reasonable. Suppose, there has been some research since 1940?

'Nu chto gliadite? Ne poluchali davno?'

[–] ProudTraitor 13 years ago

It states Rosa Luxemburg and Emma Goldman are the same person.

I'm sure the "statistics" about Jews being 98% of all the worlds prostitution dealers wouldn't be hard to debunk also.

[–] HSauer 12 years ago

If every IMDb reader would contribute just one goof, that might account for all there are in the film. Here is my contribution: Albert Einstein is called "the relativity Jew" and condemned for (being Jewish and) assaulting German thought with his absurd theories. Actually the Theory of Relativity has held up rather well over the past 100 years. Einstein's track record is not that of a person whose primary motivation was to confuse Germans and gentiles.

[–] brower8 12 years ago

Indeed, Albert Einstein established that everything is relative -- to the strictest absolute in physical reality, the speed of light in a vacuum. The speed of light is now the basis of all measurement of length or distance and anything related (whoops, a word connected to "relativity"!) to physical dimensions of any material object and to radiation, electrical charge, and gravitation. (The meter is defined as the distance that light travels in a small amount of time - roughly one 300 millionths of a second, so nobody now needs any "meter bar").

The basic goof is that the Jews are uncreative people (except for disseminating filth) incapable of making contributions to German life. Yet that ignores so German a composer as Felix Mendelssohn. It denies the relevance of Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka. If the Germans had kept their souls they would have found Gustav Mahler the perfect accompaniment to any triumphs.

The Jews were a blessing to Germany, the people whose small businesses kept the cartels and trusts honest before 1933, the people who could think outside the box (and a country has that or it goes sour fast).