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Sunday, July 13, 2008 --- 38 days ago http://liberalfascism.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzRhZmRjNThhZDA0MWE5ZGFlY2I2OTA
| From a reader: Dear Mr. Goldberg: I just re-read the chapter on Nazism in _Liberal Fascism_ and this time, I noted that in your discussion of identity politics, there is no discussion of their use of playing the victim card. The demands that led up to, and the invasions that began, World War II were often justified on the grounds that Germans were being persecuted in those regions. I noticed because I am also reading Erwin Leiser's _Nazi Cinema_ and noting how often Nazi propoganda flicks played that card. _Refugees_, the first film to win the state prize, revolves around Volga Germans in Manchuria being persecuted by Bolsheviks (and rescued, naturally enough, by a Fuhrer-like leader). _Frisians in Peril_ also revolves about Volga Germans suffering under Communist rule. Though open fighting is brought about when the Russian commander has a romantic relationship with a half-German, half-Russian girl, and the other Germans murder her for it. Then, intermarriage is often viewed unfavorably by identity politics -- if seldom brought to such a pitch. _Enemies_ has a prologue declaring that the post-war period was one of unrelenting persecution for Germans in Poland, and the British guarantee to Poland in 1939 triggered the deportation of tens of thousands of Germans, and the massacre of sixty thousand. _Homecoming_ depicts unrelenting persecution on the German minority in Poland, including attacks that blind one character and leave ano ... |
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