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Movies about Nazi Germany


If you guys are interested in another film about Nazi Germany I recommend Napola / Before the Fall (2004).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384369/

National Political Institutes of Education or Napola for short, were educational institutions designed to train and educate young kids deemed worthy of becoming the future elite leaders of Nazi Germany, in every facet of government, military, education, secret intelligence etc.

This movie explores one these schools through the eyes of a young German kid who is selected for enrolment into the school. The film is both brilliant and horrifying, making todays army cadets and boarding schools look like walk in the park.

Any other films worth watching that are from Germany's point of view?

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"Napola" is a great film - had a couple of minor issues imo but otherwise really good. Don't think there are many movies which 'genuinely' show WW2 through eyes of the Germans. I recall that "Blood and Honor: Youth under Hitler" which I saw as a movie though was also broadcast as a longer 4 part tv series, was very good. The boy joins the Hitler Youth but his father is a member of the pre-war anti-nazi underground. "Joy Division" is excellent and also has actor from "Napola" in lead role and was infamous for several brutal raping scenes when Soviets invade Germany. "Neger Neger Schornsteinfeger" was a tv film and different as was true story of a mixed-race boy of German mom and African dad growing up in 1930s then WW2 Hamburg - he wants to join Hitler youth but they refuse him, then he tries to join the army. Later he suffers in the bombing raids.

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I just watched this film it was very moving. However the top brass in the bunker were all dressed immaculate and the bunker itself seemed spotless. I would imagine it was damp dirty flickering power because it was height of war.

The inner core appear to have a cult like affinity with Hitler, referring to him as 'my further' (maybe that was the way the nazis addressed him?) Didn't they see all was lost once they lost Stalingrad & Kursk and the Russians were bombing and invading German soil?

Now to my main point. In this film I could tell they acknowledged clearly the nazis were wrong. Also war films made about the Japanese Have done the same. Have the Americans made films that accurately portray the wrongs they did in the past? I'm talking about the genocidal wars and wars and taking of land against Native Americans and slavery denial of human rights to blacks. Both of these events took place far longer than the second world, over 300 years

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yes, those movies have been made too.

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