Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
"Neither Christian nor Germanic concepts of justice know the term "collective guilt", since guilt can only be individual. However, the idea of collective guilt can be found in the Old Testament, and must therefore be regarded as an atavistic regression to the system of justice practiced by ancient Jewry."
Not only ancient Jewry! Pronay and Wilson, describing Hollywood, give us
a glimpse of how guilt feelings were injected into modern history - and
how they work today:
"Warner Brothers entered the picture in a story compounded of one part Army bureaucratic ineptitude and nine parts of Hollywood chutzpah.
What happened is of interest in and of itself, but also because it shows how an official (US Army) documentary film advocating collective guilt and nonfraternization could hit the commercial circuit in America and Britain long after both policies have been abandoned officially.
In early 1945, Warner decided to have his shorts department prepare a film warning viewers that fascism could still lead to some future war.
Warner jotted down a few ideas for what he suggested calling "the Ghosts of Berchtesgarden".
Hitler and Hirohito, along with their top aides, sit in a projection room looking happily at footage of the destruction of Poland.
"Have screen go dark and big head close-ups," Warner suggested. "Have Protestant, Jew and Catholic represented. . . At the very finish, show soldiers of Allied Nations saying, '. . . we have fought to stop this, and you at home owe it to us to see that it will not happen again. . . .
The big problem. . was creating a 'docu-drama' when fact was needed to be communicated. At first he called for a Nazi doctor to take blood from a Russian child. He argued the collective guilt of the German people without a profound knowledge of German history: '. . . the inbred German lust for power has ever been thus. . . since Frederick the Great in 1888. . . ' (sic). His narration conclude(d) by claiming that '. . . already Axis military cliques are secretly preparing again to dominate the world'.
Trying to decide what to say about the Jews proved especially ticklish.
His original draft included two references. A 'Jewish man' says he is 'the wanderer in exile' who 'died in the gutter of the ghetto in Warsaw'. Then a 'mother' testifies as to the 'abomination of Buchenwald's notorious concentration camp, who saw the Nazis when they jeered and killed my son.'
Script B, April 18, 1945 cuts the mother, and frees the Jewish man from any connection with Warsaw.
Script D substitutes Ohrdruf for Buchenwald.
Script E makes no changes about the Jews but calls for one shot of a dead sailor to be a Negro.
The revised final script F, of June 4, adds two full mimeographed pages using footage from the concentration camps, and extended narration discussing human (remains used as) fertilizer, shots of "warehouses' of (old) shoes, and terms the Nazi camps '. . . in every phase of their depraved fury a rotten record of ruthlessness. . . .
On June 8, (four writers) recommended that "all stages scenes" be eliminated. They suggested relating Hitler's fascism to domestic fascism inside America: 'anti-Semitism, anti-Negro prejudice, anti-labour legislation, anti-foreign born and anti-Catholic sentiment.'
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During July, the four scriptwriters and producer Jerry Wald spent time re-writing the script, now in fact adding a strong ending about domestic fascism. . ."
Domestic fascism? Please note the time frame. We are still talking summer
1945 !
Last week, a ZGram reader did a Lexis/Nexis search on current news reporting
(since January 1997). Of the 14,868 stories on Germany, 3,524 of them mentioned
the words: "nazi", "neo-nazi" or "right-wing extremist"
- which is almost one-fourth of the stories !
I reprint the Warner segment above as an example of the creation and realization
of but one anti-German hate film to illustrate what the Germans were (and
are) up against when it comes to their image as painted via Hollywood. Who
does not think of the recent Spielberg movie "Schindler's List"
that was produced around the same theme in just about the same way and for
which identical methods of production and subterfuge were used to show alleged
German atrocities allegedly committed. "Schindler's List" is touted
as a docu-drama. The creator of "Schindler's List" fiendishly
used only black-and-white film and many viewers, even now, believe they
see actual wartime footage - even the hand-held cameras are jiggled to create
a "documentary" effect.
It cannot be said often enough that, to this day, and in the furtherance
of continuing "re-education", Germans are not allowed to expose
the innumerable, incongruous Allied lies pertaining to the German wartime
conduct of their leaders or their soldiers - only now the Allies have a
generation of brainwashed German educators (journalists, teachers, TV personalities,
authors, historians and politicians) doing their dirty work for them.
If a German publicly questions any of the unfounded and unproved Allied
allegations spread by these mind-warped, mind-warping people - even the
most illogical ones - he may be sentenced to up to five years in prison
simply for contrasting craven propaganda lies with scientifically provable
facts!
So you see, the wailing of "Never again!" does not at all pertain
to things that happened in the past. It is aimed at the future. It is to
keep the offspring of the German soldiers of an heroically fought war in
numb, perpetual slavery so that the State of Israel can continue to exist
as a base of operation for all kinds of activities - from stealing American
secrets to selling their technology to America's own enemies to tormenting
their Arab neighbors. It is to keep the racket going, to assure a false
"victim" status to the originators and perpetrators of lies and
hate, and to assure that the money for reparations keeps flowing.
Forever!
Where would they be without their "Holocaust"? In the stetls of
Eastern Europe, wearing caftans and believing in their ancient superstitions
- instead of next to the United Nations quarters in New York?
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"The Israelis charge that when Jordan occupied East Jerusalem, Jewish graves were 'desecrated'. I sometimes wonder what happened to the 15,000 Muslim graves that were there in my time, but not now."
(Andrew Killgore in "Vignettes from Jerusalem the Golden")