The Soviet Paradise - part 2 (Aug 1941)

German Wartime Newsreel (Die Deutsche Wochenschau).

The German Army cameraman on the eastern front not only witnessed World War II's greatest land battles, but also was a first-hand observer of life in Russia after 20 years of Soviet rule. His films of conditions inside Stalin's state were skillfully arranged by Hitler's propagandists to present a bleak picture of the Soviet paradise. Its citizenry are represented as starving children, youthful gangs, cowed laborers and wretched peasants barely existing on dilapidated collective farms or in overcrowded city slums or even homeless on the barren steppes. A deserted university and desecrated crypts of an abandoned church form dismal monuments to knowledge and faith forsaken. Although scarcely impartial, this Nazi film offers us a unique picture of the Russian interior, compiled by the only cameramen ever unrestrained by Soviet censors.

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[floresebu]

The communists were mass murderers of their own people but the nazis were hardly better!!!

[piefuzzz]

@gnarbotz

He probably is, he killed 21 million other people.

[tosterlleon]

@IustitiaPax

You are a Nazi apologist who spreads Nazi propaganda,

Tell it to the polish people that Nazi did not kill almost 6 millions of their citizens.

Tell them that their history is just a falsification

I guess it is time for me to join local Nazi group, you really convinced me :)

[tosterlleon]

You idiot I know really well who Manfred von Ardenne was. My grandfather worked with him for many years and they were exchanging letters for almost half a century. I am not sure what you know about history, but everything you are saying about science (physics in particular) is complete bullshit. You are a liar.

[tosterlleon]

You outdid yourself my friend. I studied physics for 4 years in undergrad and grad school as a minor.

Heisenberg was great but saying he was more important than Albert Einstein ,

Anyway I wonder how Heisenberg survived in the Nazi Germany

After Adolf Hitler came to power During this time, Heisenberg, came under vicious attacks

German Newspapers called Heisenberg a “White Jew” who should be made to “disappear"

[tosterlleon]

I understand now, anything but pro Nazi, pro german resource is a lies. The only Honorable people were the Nazi and their allies. Millions of Slavic dead civilians never existed. Millions of Polish civilians never were killed by the Nazi. Millions Of Russian and Ukrainian civilians never were killed by the Nazi either.

All Nazi did they brought the fire of enlightenment to those unthankfull 180 millions of Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, Belarus, Russians)

[tosterlleon]

Look I got it. Anything but Nazi apologetic resources are biased I got you point.

Polish who hate Soviets probably more then hate Nazi are biased , look agree with you after all.

Only Nazi and Nazi allies were good guys. Everyone else is bad and biased.



[IustitiaPax]

@tosterlleon Wernher von Braun was very important on missile science, and Heisenberg was the most important German scientist. More important than Albert Einstein (another overrated media-active personality). You do not seem to know who Manfred von Ardenne is, and how valuable he was?

[IustitiaPax]

@tosterlleon Yes, of course. It is easy to blame only 0.5 million on the Soviets, and an imaginary 5.8 million of the Nazis. The IPN new counting was done, as it was obvious, that the claimed 'victims of the Nazis" were too high in numbers. The Polish historians faculties are still influenced by anti-German sentiment and Communist relics of the pre-1989 past.

[IustitiaPax]

@tosterlleon The "3.5 million Soviet POWs" who allegedly died, never died. About 1.5 million Soviet POWs in reality died from August 1941 until Dec. 1941, as the German High Command never could supply both the German Army and the provisional POW camps for the unexpected huge amounts of Soviet POWs. The other 2 million Soviet POWs fought in Axis units and fell, or stayed in the West after 1945, fearing Soviet deportations and tyranny. After Dec. 1941, the Soviet POWs were treated better.