Word: nazis
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...Buergerbraukeller, a large beer hall in Munich. "The national revolution has begun," he shouted. Not quite. Adolf Hitler was forcing the issue. With Germany seething at the spineless Weimar government over the humiliating terms of the World War I armistice, Hitler sensed an opportunity. Just before 9 p.m., his Nazis launched a putsch, or coup d'etat, taking three powerful officials hostage. With hundreds of his Storm Troopers surrounding the hall, he compelled the trio to support him. But Nazi euphoria was fleeting; Hitler's three "supporters" slipped away and denounced him. Police opened fire on the Nazis when they...
According to Rentschler, co-curator Eder believes that these films ought to be “redeemed,” recognized for the important ways they diverge from Nazi era films, for their historical significance and for their aesthetic value...
Instead of documenting or reflecting upon Nazi atrocities, these films choose to focus on more abstract themes of irrepressible memory and inescapable history...
...Lost Man, Lorre’s character is a serial murderer and a Nazi, but he does not kill on behalf of the Party, and his victims are not Jewish. The film engages a guilty history, but it is the guilt of a lone psychopath rather than the guilt of an entire nation. Lorre suggests that Dr. Rothe’s transformation from an upstanding doctor to a murderer is linked to the political climate of the time, but the politics in the film are driven by wartime espionage, not by anti-Semitism...
...resulting message—as is the case in many of the films in the series—is that the German people were the victims of the Nazi regime, not victimizers on its behalf. Still, Dr. Rothe is a man tormented by his murderous past, and even the film’s harshest critics would be hard-pressed to ignore Rothe’s metaphorical significance...