Children are ripped from parents. They are put in cages. Trump bashes peaceful protesters to get a photo op. Trump says dead soldiers are losers. ON AND ON AND ON it goes.
But to hear it, right wingers are patriots, heroes and brave as ****. There truly is no prosperous way forward, but to have right wingery subsume all.
Folks standing their ground on a parking spot. Yelling at minorities. All manor of ugly hateful arrogance. And STILL, the right wing are righteous, the left wing must be crushed and ELIMINATED.
How do these folks bamboozle themselves into such admiration?
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Elderly Nazis Laugh as They Recall Massacring Jews
VENICE—It is the vivid description over and over by different voices—sometimes with a wry laugh—of the smell of the burning flesh of thousands of Jewish people killed in Adolf Hitler’s ovens that makes British filmmaker Luke Holland’s Final Account both painful to watch and hard to turn away from. The most poignant aspect of the film is that it proves how state control and coercion can normalize even the most horrific acts, a lesson perhaps more relevant in today’s world than ever.
Many of those featured have pristinely preserved their swastika-stamped membership cards to the Hitler Youth and the SS, unwrapping them for Holland with what can only be described as pride. Others had scrapbooks and other memorabilia of a time it is hard to fathom could have produced anything like a happy childhood, yet photo after photo shows these elderly people as smiling young children caught up in one of the bleakest moments of history.
In interview after interview, these men and women explained how they were removed from the horror even as they stood guard at concentration camps or did other work that supported Hitler’s actions. The women spoke of how thin the camp prisoners were, how hungry they were as they sipped coffee and ate biscuits with Holland. One woman marveled at the great dentists among the prisoners, explaining that they had to provide dental care for free to the local community members and showing how the repairs on her own teeth had lasted all these years.
Toward the end, Holland’s tone turns and he asks each of his main characters if they are complicit. Some admit that doing nothing perhaps could be construed as such, but that if 99 people in front of you kill Jews, then by the time it’s your turn, it seems right. Holland, who only learned of his own Jewish heritage in 2005, set out to discover who murdered his grandparents, but surely never imagined he would meet so many unrepentant Nazis.
Elderly Nazis Laugh as They Recall Massacring Jews
