the whitewash continues
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article2315329.ece
Sigh. One of my pet peeves. The so-called German resistance is the most over-rated group of of the 20th century. Fascist, monarchist and ultra-conservative cowards willing to sacrifice tens of millions of their own and their opponents' people for wealth and a sickening glory, who turned tail and tried to weasel out once it looked like they might have to pay for their actions. All of these guys were pro-Hitler, while he was winning. Only when they could practically smell the hot breath of the cossacks breathing down their worthless necks did they decide that nazism was no fun.
For a real opposition within Germany you have to avoid virtually every person of note or position, (all were enthusiastic followers and supporters of Hitler until threatened themselves); and concentrate on small cells of Communists, Anarchists, and liberal Catholics operating in and occasionally outside, the country. The White Rose is the most famous of these groups. Almost pathetically naive and brave, they were doomed.
But, thanks to Tom Cruise, all facts will be washed away and buried amidst Hollywood bullshit and we'll once again be inundated with the fiction of the "Good German". I'm sure it'll keep going. In ten years we'll probably have John Travolta portraying the "Good Hitler"...
Sigh. One of my pet peeves. The so-called German resistance is the most over-rated group of of the 20th century. Fascist, monarchist and ultra-conservative cowards willing to sacrifice tens of millions of their own and their opponents' people for wealth and a sickening glory, who turned tail and tried to weasel out once it looked like they might have to pay for their actions. All of these guys were pro-Hitler, while he was winning. Only when they could practically smell the hot breath of the cossacks breathing down their worthless necks did they decide that nazism was no fun.
For a real opposition within Germany you have to avoid virtually every person of note or position, (all were enthusiastic followers and supporters of Hitler until threatened themselves); and concentrate on small cells of Communists, Anarchists, and liberal Catholics operating in and occasionally outside, the country. The White Rose is the most famous of these groups. Almost pathetically naive and brave, they were doomed.
But, thanks to Tom Cruise, all facts will be washed away and buried amidst Hollywood bullshit and we'll once again be inundated with the fiction of the "Good German". I'm sure it'll keep going. In ten years we'll probably have John Travolta portraying the "Good Hitler"...
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