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[Trevor5888]

Does anyone know the name of the piece that begins at 9:50?

[Prometheo1]

@Trevor5888 Probably from Wagner's Rienzi.

You can find the entire opera on the Internet. Some excerpts are on YouTube.

[Carpediem8110101]

One of the best objective documentaries about National Socialism from their eternal allied enemies.

[AquariaSpirit]

I am no racist nor am I am fascist but this period of art in history is my favorite.

[Bobjua]

damn hitler is smart

[elainebmack]

I first saw this documentary back in the early 90's and had no success in finding it again until now. Thank you so much for posting this. I must buy the DVD.

[adripipo]

It's a great documentary. However, I prefer to say National Socialism instead of Nazism.

[Prometheo1]

@adripipo Why?

[CaptainPugwash2008]

While these documentaries are enjoyable and do provide a great insight into historical events, it must always be kept in mind that there is always an element of propaganda in them. Germany lost WW2 so of course every documentary aired in the western world tries to paint a picture of ultimate evil of Nazi Germany. The same is for Soviet Russia. Just remember that these documentaries are made hinting to the the viewer that our current system is the best and all others are evil.

[Prometheo1]

@CaptainPugwash2008 doubleplusgood newspeak. Pugwash bellyfeel doublethink.

[digger663]

This blew my mind...and really made some sense of the Nazi madness...this is why artist should stay away from politics and power..

[notitbros]

@digger663 the computer-animated "art" of so-called "plane crashes" on 9/11 is also a stomach-turning aesthetic. I find that the USA is too easily led into Nazi-like ideals that paint an unrealistic picture of reality - one that necessitates American violence as a form of "discipline" against foreign governments it views as "disease".

[KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

@notitbros ?? You dont really think the planes were fake and what happened in front of billions worldwide on TV was somehow a hoax? And to those hundreads of thousands in New york that saw it?

[Prometheo1]

@notitbros There are plenty of legitimate questions about what happened on 9-11. But saying there were no planes, only holograms, is far from objective.

Islam today is carrying on the National Socialist enterprise. See if you can discover how many Nazis escaped justice in Nuremberg and moved to the Middle East. Thousands of German descendants are found in the "Palestinian" movement.

In Israel, it's easy to see how NSDAP propaganda is used in the Islamic media, political, & education system.

[elainebmack]

@digger663 . Do you think that is really possible? Art and politics are often intertwined. So many great works of art feature political symbols and/or statements. Look at Picasso's "Guernica" or Hans Holbein's "The Ambassadors". Just something to think about.

[mollynoonful]

Someone said THAT: Thanks very much for posting this. Perhaps the best documentary i have seen on nazi Germany. Its' amazing how evil can be interlaced with goodness, how Nazism is so very seductive and opulls on a persons heart strings.

Interlaced with goodness? seductive?

This is a weirdo politeness: nazis were overcultured, they did like good manners as nobody else and play like cats with mice just before killing them.

Eva, you're still among us.

[mollynoonful]

Someone said THAT: Thanks very much for posting this. Perhaps the best documentary i have seen on nazi Germany. Its' amazing how evil can be interlaced with goodness, how Nazism is so very seductive and opulls on a persons heart strings.

Interlaced with goodness? seductive?

This is a weirdo politeness: nazis were overcultured, they did like goos manners as nobody else.

Eva, you're still among us.

[MrJoshuaLlanos]

This is my favorite movie. It's a stylized interpretation of a terrible time and place. I don't know how accurate an interpretation it is, but I just like this movie until I die.

[salvadore88]

I could believe that Hitler wanted a "prettier nation." He was an artist, after all. What greater art form could there be, in a twisted artist's mind, than to actually create a world-literally- that looked like a painting brought to life?

[malloy12321]

i know this has been asked before but maybe by now someone may have an answer. What is the song that is played at 10:00. It's not the Rienzi overture but I figure it is a Wagner piece. I would really like to know, thank you.

[elainebmack]

@malloy12321 . Hello there. I have just tuned into this video and saw your question about the music at 10:00, I'll try to answer you even though it's 10 months later! This music is probably not by Wagner, but probably one of the many marches composed for brass bands that were popular in Germany at that time. Germany has a long tradition of marches, not necessarily played for military purposes. I don't know who the composer is, but there were many of them during this time. I hope this helps.

[Prometheo1]

@malloy12321 It might not be in the Rienzi overture, but it's probably from some other part of the opera.

If you find out otherwise, please post here.

[illbetilbake]

i love this film. it is however dangerously one-sided: viewing nazism and the events that led to wwii as ultimately a matter of aesthetics is a huge stretch.

[Prometheo1]

The film makes more sense if you've studied the huge body of historical analysis regarding Germany, Europe, & the rise of Nazism.

I don't understand how a documentary on the aesthetics & underlying belief system of Nazi leaders can be "dangerously one-sided".

[illbetilbake]

the film gives an insightful account of art and asesthetics propagated by the nazi regime, but it is hardly a 'golden bullet' explanation of nazism. anti-semitism, hatred of communists, hatred of the enlightenment, rationality and capitalism, restauration of order and national pride as well as economy, are all elements that were much more important than art to most nazis, and not to mention ordinary germans who were in favour of hitler.

[mikepalomino]

Wonderful documentary! Equal parts fascinating and insightful. Thank you for sharing it on YouTube.

I think what @illbetilbake means to say by "one-sided" is that the film puts "the cart before the horse" instead of the other way around. The film suggests that it was from Hitler's obsession with aesthetics & antiquity that Nazism sprung.

I think the "danger" they refer to is that one might watch and assume that artistic/aesthetic tastes were solely responsible for fascism and the Holocaust.

[elainebmack]

@Prometheo1 . I agree with you. The arts are powerful, and can be used for good as well as evil as we see in this documentary. Ironically, the initial Nazi/German aesthetics of cleanliness, order, beauty, and respect for the classic arts were a wonderful balm to a people who had suffered humiliation and hardship during WWI. I can see how easily things went wrong. The scary part is that it could easily happen again - anywhere and anytime.

[TarasMarat]

@Prometheo1

It's obviously an insidious work of propaganda aimed at smearing the Baroque and Classical revival movements.

[meshlife88]

@illbetilbake I know this reply is two years late but this is part of a larger series, and this is the aesthetics/art/culture portion.

[skulltotenkopf]

Hi Prometheo1, you must watch the documentary "Soviet Story", by Edvins Snore (2009), you will like it. It seems the treu cooperation between URSS and Nazi german from 1933 untill 1941. The Cohen´s documentary is very good too, tank you. Regards from Brazil.

[Prometheo1]

I've seen part of this documentary. You're correct - it's important and shows that almost everything we think we know about the Soviets & Nazis is wrong.

Interesting moniker you have... "death-head-skull" :-)

How're things in Brazil? Two of my favorite movies: Black Orpheus and City of God.

[Prometheo1]

Probably something from Wagner's "Reinzi".

[Bfdidc]

This is an absolutely superlative documentary on the history of Nazism and its sense of aesthetics. Those who agree may want to check out another film by the same team: "Homosapiens 1900" about the history of the eugenics movement.

[Prometheo1]

Thanks for the "Homosapiens 1900" reference.

kol tuv

[Bfdidc]

No problem. Definitely worth a look.

[Idoingwhatam]

on about inspection

[laryro]

Could someone put subtitles in Portuguese (Brazil)?

I know english language, but i can't see a movie in english without subtitles.

So, could someone do this favor for me?

Thanks.

[nikita2332]

Thanks very much for posting this. Perhaps the best documentary i have seen on nazi Germany. Its' amazing how evil can be interlaced with goodness, how Nazism is so very seductive and opulls on a persons heart strings.

[Prometheo1]

I'm glad you understand the importance of this documentary. I suggest you make a careful reading of the book "People of the Lie" by M. Scott Peck. We all should carefully study the method by which the Nazis were able to distort the truth and bring the majority of Germans to support the Nazi agenda. Those methods are being used today by the 1,428-year cult of mythomaniacs who taught the Nazis about anti-Semitism as a basic "religious" dogma. Thanks- THINK FOR YOURSELF. QUESTION AUTHORITY.