Hitler’s Children
Never has a generation been so completely taken over by a totalitarian state as was the case in Hitler’s Third Reich: at the age of 10 children joined the “Jungvolk” movement, at 14 they joined the Hitler Youth, and at 18 they joined the party, the “Wehrmacht”, the SA, or the SS.
This 5-part documentary by Guido Knopp and the ZDF Contemporary History Department is the first comprehensive film portrayal of the young people in the Third Reich.
With in-depth witness statements and some previously unpublished archive material, the documentary demonstrates how Hitler succeeded in gaining power over “his children” through years of manipulation.
Seduction
Dedication
Education
War
Sacrifice
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“Never has a generation been so completely taken over by a totalitarian state as was the case in Hitler’s Third Reich”
Untrue. Nazi Germany, as horrific as it was, doesn’t hold a candle to many of the genocides committed across the globe, both before and since.
Nazi Germany is still fresh in our minds being one of the most recent. But it was certainly neither the first nor last of this type of conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
Thanks for sharing this documentary Mr. Vlatko! We love u :)
Thanks @kapima.
Nazi Genocide is still the wost imo.
@Kapi
Sorry, your opinion is wrong.
perhaps then, jack, one could at least say that the nazi genocide continues to exert a dominant influence in the cultural imaginary whatever it’s actual position relative to other past similar conflicts.
According to author R.J. Rummel in his mind blowing work ‘Death by Government’ the nazis killed only one third of the number the soviets did. These figures are easy to prove and remember to use your rights to the FOIA while you can. Governments murder more of their own than die in all wars.
128,168,000 VICTIMS: THE DEKA-MEGAMURDERERS
61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
III 19,178,000 VICTIMS: THE LESSER MEGA-MURDERERS
5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military
2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State
1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges
1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State
1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing
1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State
1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse
Figures obtained from:http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Also, remember the millions of humans who once lived in America? You know, the ones referred to as red skin savages. How soon people forget or just choose not to see the dirt around their own front doors.
Wow! This is a great series! So sad.
REB: The greatest mass murders are yet to come, on that I’m sure you and I both agree. I believe the worst of the worst will happen under the “Antichrist” proper. I’ve never even seen anyone die, nor have I had a close loved one die, except for a close friend or two. It’s hard for me to imagine death on such a scale such as war. God help us all.
In fact, my dad was a child soldier. He was sixteen when he enlisted in the army (saying he was 18) and went to Germany near the end of WWII. He’s a verteran of WWII. He was trained as a sniper, but fortunately never had to use his skills to take another human life.
The Nazi GEnocide is over hyped. WW2 was geographically the biggest war ever, couple that with millions of Jews dying and you’vve got an eternal topic. Issues like Palestinian kids dying (which is happening right now) seem like an appetizer.
If you watch the documantaries about Barbarians, you’ll understand from where the german peoples are coming from. they r predators. With small groups of farmers,they managed to put the western roman empire on his knees to finally conquer western europe from Spain (visigoths), Italy (Lombards) Gaule (Franks)and even england with the Saxons. They ruled europe. Hitler did exactly the same
People here are missing the point of the documentary, its not to show people that this is the biggest and the best genocide of them all. It is to show how people were seduced into this type of mind set and why we should be aware of these types of thinking. It is heartless to say that because only so many millions died it is less important than a larger scale one. An attempt at genocide on any scale is a horrible thing to downplay like that.
Tom’s right, this series is a lesson in authoritarian thinking (or the lack thereof in the followers) and the dangers of blind faith.
Dear Georges.
There were east and west germanic tribes, which were basically warriors, smiths and farmers. They had some kind of tribal organization. There was a barbarian invasion around III-IV centuries, which german historians call “Völkerwanderung”, which means the migration of the people.
It is unknown, why all the tribes attacked the roman empire almost at the same time. Some writers say, that maybe there was another enemy pushing them from the East, and provoked this simultaneous (but not coordinated) major invasion. Anyway, the roman empire crumbled, and the Dark Ages begun.
I have read, the germanic tribes were quite good for forging metals, and their kings and queens liked jewelry, gems and stones. Although they were basically pagan (heathens)They were quite impressed by christian bishops, so they considered them as holy men. It seems that slavery was practiced also among them (romans did that too).
It seems that many elements from fairy tales (magic swords, gems, rings, dwarfs working on subterranean kingdoms, dragons and worms (terrestrial dragons without wings)) were born at the period from germanic myths.
Greetings.
K. Adam.
I think what really amazing here – without first having watched the series, is that people are having a REAL dialogue here. People are using punctuation, they’re spelling correctly – it’s so nice to see.
Genocides happen even today, it simply doesn’t touch the people that have television and internet connections (most of them) as deeply as ww2 in which probably all europeans have a grandpa/grandma that remember a thing or two of the horrors.
Thus I agree with Tom, this docu is there to teach us something about HOW it happened and what to avoid repeating, not to set some type of perverted genocide competition.
Its interesting that our society does not differ so much from nazis. Lot of same elements. No one really questions the system, its values or how it works. Everyone is just doing the same things its human nature. This is interesting if you have children. Same ways of manipulation, same social rues are still in use.
@ad: You might want to check out “The Authoritarians” by Prof. Bob Altemeyer, authoritarian behavior is always with us. There’s a free PDF version available from his website:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
lol whats diferent between hitlers and today, i think none. yeterdays victoms became todays agrasers, todays victoms may become agressers in future, history is full of conflict, what name u give it, killing civil is a crime, its by intension or by mistake, kill is kill,
all power full empires and countries fall at the end. we r next. agree or not same hapend in history, same wil hapen in future. power is no ons loyal frind,
this what i think.
doc was great, 7 out of 10.