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Here is Germany was a 1945 propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra. Like its companion film, Know Your Enemy: Japan, the film is a full-length exploration of why one of the two major Axis countries started World War II and what had to be done to keep them from "doing it again".

The film opens with scenes of everyday life in Germany. It shows people such as housewives, policemen and farmers at work, and notes that these people weren't so different than us. Or are they? another narrator interrupts. The film then switches to a montage of Nazi concentration camps and piles of dead bodies. The narrator notes that this isn't the only time that Germany has unleashed war on the world, stating that while its generation fought the "Nazis", its fathers fought the "Huns" (pejorative term for Germany during World War I), and its grand father remembers the "Prussians". The narrator claims that its was all part of the same German lust for conquest.

Going even further back 150 years, the film informs us that while America, Britain, and France were forming their democratic traditions, Germany was a group of 300 medieval feudal states, not one of them with a constitution or parliament. The film traces the rise of Prussia from Frederick the Great through Bismarck, telling the audience that the Prussian state was dominated first by aristocratic landowners, militarists and state officials, later joined by the big industrialists. This development of a military industrial dominated state climaxes in World War I. When the above mentioned elements knew that they were beaten, according to the film, they put the democratic parties in charge in order to discredit the new republic. Once that was accomplished they found a stooge in Hitler, who would finally destroy the Weimar Republic with the addition of a 5th pillar - criminals.

The film depicts the Third Reich entirely from this perspective, seeing Nazism as simply a continuation of the aggressive German tradition, and then merely a façade for the military-industrial complex. The Nazi persecution of Jews is not explicitly mentioned, but in the initial sequence of Nazi atrocities it shows the bones of "men, women and children: sent to be exterminated in a German death factory".

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[napalmcoffee]

hmmm ever notice that Obama is like plastered all over the news stands

[historyvideos101]

Hmmmm... Ever notice that Regan's was too?

Oh, I know, you probably liked him, so that is different.

[emoscreamohxc]

umad?

seems like you have nerve endings in obama's asshole. FUCK THAT COMMIE NIGGER

[historyvideos101]

@emoscreamohxc

My guess (and hope) is that karma is going to be a real bitch for you.... and take this sweet thought to your dying day that several of your offspring (if fate demands that your genes will be passed down), will hook up with many different colors of humans - and improve your inbred line of trash.

[emoscreamohxc]

do you mean to imply that by "hooking up" with people of color, that is by virtue of itself will "improve" my offspring? and you're the "non racist" ...

get a grip.

[historyvideos101]

@emoscreamohxc

No, first off I'm implying that the bigger racist prick a guy is, the more likely he will also be a bastard who his daughter will end up hating, and will probably do whatever to piss him off.

Your dad was a racist dick-head and you are following the path. If you have a sister, she probably acted out too.

Bottom line is that screwed up people raise screwed up kids - some more functional than others. Cause & effect - try reading something other than hate propaganda and learn.

[historyvideos101]

@emoscreamohxc

Also, yes, diversity does strengthen a population. Bottom line: Inbreeding ain't no good for ya; being whooped makes you wana beat on others. Children of abusive parents = guys become pricks like pa - girls become strippers etc, and hook up with pricks.

Scapegoating - what a great way for messed up loosers to feel better about themselves! I'm sorry that you are still that beaten up little boy. It was not your fault what you became, but it is your fault if you pass it on.

[Manuelsk850]

They just show the germany making wars, but they don't say nothing about the political reason, or do you thing germans just started a war because they thought they were from the superior race?come on....

[davidperi]

I wonder if Frank Capra knew of the Red menace and their plans?

[frellthat]

@storfinpanda There is no historical argument to be found buried somewhere in this video. It's simple and outright racism.

[storfinpanda]

What a blatant piece of propaganda.

All I see is misrepresentation and/or cherry picking of historical events to make them fit a preconceived view mixed in with praise of of the "American way".

Somewhere under all the shit they're throwing at you there is a historical argument hidden but this gross onesided oversimplification of history is just shameful.

[marktsheppard]

Carl Schmid will never learn his lesson, to be the best is what sets him apart

[gvrjr3]

6:16 "then and then only (...) germany can join the peaceful nations of the world' and what i see is a soviet flag. it made me laugh. those silly americans.

[billybobmacguyver]

@historyvideos101 I completly agree with pretty much everything you said. Breeding exclusivly within one race group over many generations will inevitably lead to inbreeding and self defeating traits. I believe that a more diversified genetic variance leads to a more evolved and less tradition driven individual.