Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Peter H-son (A) on November 10, 2007 at 06:00:55

In Reply to: RE: A really terrible film that has no courage. The woman falls in love posted by tinear on November 08, 2007 at 16:43:39

"No, these are not guys who were wishy-washy Nazis, these were the most sadistic of a sadistic lot."

Please. The Nazis were not the deranged "ghoulies" seen in Schindler's List. Fascists are not the Three Stooges with a "kick me" signs on their backs. Schindler's List was the movie all real Nazis waited for. By making the Nazis out to be Charles Manson or Ichi the Killer types, nobody is a Nazi.

The simple fact is that no leader in America or Europe objected to the "final solution" as long as the Nazis kept a lid on it. Britain could have saved half a million Jews, but replied, "What should we do with half a million Jews?"

I do agree that racism and bigotry are the biggest evils of the world. But there's no difference between the Nazis and the people in the American south who supported segregation in the 1960s. But somehow a noose in a tree is just a harmless prank, while a swastika on a synagogue is a hate crime.