Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by danj (A) on July 27, 2009 at 09:01:00

In Reply to: RE: Eichman: The anatomy of a murderer----- posted by patrickU on July 27, 2009 at 06:07:55

I'll rent it today.

There was an excellent production based on the same theme that played on PBS several years ago. I remember it as being rather chilling and wonder if the new film is as effective.

William Shirer's "Berlin Diaries: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941" is a fascinating study of the strangeness of that time and how it came to be that a culture that considered itself the pinnacle of civilization became such an efficient murder machine. Define a task and assign bureaucrats to carry it out. Don't consider the moral implications for those are secondary to the "needs of the state." Eichmann was an excellent bureaucrat.