Oscar Honors A Nazi (Debbie Schlussel Introduces New Website)

Debbie Schussel.com ^ | 3/01/04 | Debbie Schlussel

[antiRepublicrat]

This PC rewriting of history is getting on my nerves. We aren't allowed to mention achievements of a person if that person was associated with the Nazis in any way. No one seems to be able to look at things objectively anymore, in an academic fashion, and maybe pull lessons -- removed from their evil original context of course. So I'll say it:

• Leni was a pretty good filmmaker
• Hitler was an excellent public speaker capable of arousing passion in his audience (yes, I know German)
• Speer was a good architect and event organizer, and an unparalleled industrial manager, capable of increasing production during a time of increased bombardment by the allies (killing him would have cut two years off the war)
• Goebbels was the pioneer in true propaganda, practically putting it down to a science -- principles followed by everyone pushing a cause, especially those with no real merit (Walters must sleep with Goebbels' bio under his pillow)
• von Braun was a brilliant scientist

The only exception seems to be that we can admire the military men of the Nazi powers, such as Heinz Guderian and Irwin Rommel, separating them from those they served. Why only them? Okay, Rommel tried to kill Hitler, so maybe we give him a break on that, although he did it to save his country, not necessarily to save any Jews or Gypsies.

If we keep going in this attitude, a later generation that maybe abhors nuclear weapons may never allow the accomplishments of Oppenheimer, Teller and Einstein to be mentioned. We don't turn people into "non-persons" Soviet-style anymore, we just put a "Nazi animal" label on them and don't look any further.

[sharktrager]

No such outrage from the entertainment industry’s liberal elite for the Nazi filmmaker who glorified the genocide of six million Jews and the murder of five million others.

Leni was far from the innocent she always claimed, but none of her film glorified the Holocaust. Now, I don't think anyone can read Mein Kampf and believe Hitler had anything but evil intentions. But, the fact is, the above statement is unfair and untrue.

[RonHolzwarth]

re: "Speer was a good architect and event organizer, and an unparalleled industrial manager,,,"

After the war, he left behind two mighty fine books:

Twenty Years in Spandau"
and
"Inside the Third Reich"

Which today gives us a look inside Nazi Germany. Anyone who reads his books will learn A LOT, especially about HOW IT ALL HAPPENED, and the wise,,, will learn how to keep it from ever happening again.

Since he survived the war, he was able to write those two books.

I think it is more important for future generations to LEARN from war criminals, instead of the present generation getting some gleeful joy from executing them.

That was Winston Churchill's opinion too.

[endthematrix]

" PC rewriting of history is getting on my nerves."

It's getting on mine too. However here it's case where the Left love her because of controversy and anti-social overtones, and some because of her being a NAZI. We are judging her ethical and moral character in light of her specific film making ability. It is choice not PC.

"We aren't allowed to mention achievements moral scrutiny of a person if that person was associated with the Nazis in any way anyone who we say at any particular time, or not."

That is current PC speak.