The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator's private life

[Serpo]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/27/hitler-home-movies-eva-braun

[drafter]

"Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler's private life with her cine-camera. But it was only the obsession of artist Lutz Becker that brought her films to light. Robert McCrum and Taylor Downing uncover the story of the footage that shocked the world"


"Becker is still tormented by the first reactions to Eva Braun's films. "I was punished for puncturing a negative myth. People saw something that was banal in action, and banal in its colour." He believes that many had become comfortable with the carefully composed, black-and-white propaganda images of the Nazis. "People hate it when you tinker with their mythologies," he says. Over a generation, however, perceptions have changed."

Why in the hell should the world be so "shocked"? You mean maybe the propoganda that Hitler must have sported horns with demons dancing about him wasn't true? You mean maybe he was just a guy stuck in a position of trying to put the interests of his people above those of enemies being held in camps, not unlike the japanese internment camps of the United States, while being mercilessly bombed by the allies.

Does anyone think the U.S. citizens of Japanese decent being held in U.S. "concentration" camps would have fared so much better if the U.S. had to deal daily with the bombing of New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago? Who would get the required food and resources in that situation, the citizens being decimated by the bombing, or the perceived enemies being held in camps all across the U.S.?

[General of Darkness]

What's interesting is that the video was posted October 2011, why is this now coming to light?

[chad]

it was holocaust day either yesterday or today. have to work it.

[Serpo]

these people seem no worse than the people running the show today............hahahahha