youtube.com— Nazi propaganda complete color film from 1936. An outstanding portrait of everyday life in Berlin in this rare, well preserved film, with the magical feeling of the pastel colors of Agfachrome.
Aug 10, 2008View in Crawl 4
It still is - in a way.I've been living here for eight years now. Actually, I went down Friedrichstraße and did some shopping at Alexanderplatz a few hours ago - and it is *so* different from what you see in this amazing bit of film.This juxtaposition of 1936 and 2008 boggles the mind. I know many of the places in this clip, and yet they look like movie decorations here - fake because they are clean, complete, in context. I only know them as war-torn, rebuilt, re-shaped, re-decorated settings for the current globalization drama. And here you see them in their original shape - a stage for the Nazi's End of Civilization show.You see people dancing, swimming, smoking, enjoying themselves as if there were no tomorrow - or, more precisely, as if this new empire would indeed last a thousand years. A little bit of Jazz, the Zoo, a few brownshirts, and, oh yeah, Göring's Reichsluftfahrtministerium, with blueprints of Messerschmidt bombers on the fat pig's table, planning the subjugation of Europe while outside, pretty boys and girls enjoy the perfect summer,just as we do today.So much of Berlin 2008 is in post-modern denial of its past. War? What war? Hitler who? Who gives a s**t; a new Adidas flagship store just opened on Münzstraße. Hooray for the future!And still, if you look closely, you see the past. The bullet holes. The empty spots where some of these amazing buildings stood. The place where the Stadtschloss used to be, demolished by the Soviets, replaced by the socialist Palast der Republic, which also will be history in a few months - they are tearing it down in slow-motion, ecologically correct. The old Stadtschloss will be rebuilt in its place - *if* they can find the 700 million Euros required - and a purpose for the building, as we currently have no monarchy or ned for another f**king shopping mall.We'll see.A German author said that Berlin is the city cursed into always *becoming* something; never allowed to just *be*.True.
Too bad such a wonderful country full of beautiful people were later squashed to nothing. America can take a lesson and not let our leader do the same to us.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2008
extraordinary rendition - video<a class="user" href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/rendition701/">http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/renditio ...</a>
Closed AccountAug 11, 2008
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cloud7659Aug 11, 2008
Yeah....f**k YOU for stating factual statistics because my friends are included in them!
middleofnowhereAug 11, 2008
It still is - in a way.I've been living here for eight years now. Actually, I went down Friedrichstraße and did some shopping at Alexanderplatz a few hours ago - and it is *so* different from what you see in this amazing bit of film.This juxtaposition of 1936 and 2008 boggles the mind. I know many of the places in this clip, and yet they look like movie decorations here - fake because they are clean, complete, in context. I only know them as war-torn, rebuilt, re-shaped, re-decorated settings for the current globalization drama. And here you see them in their original shape - a stage for the Nazi's End of Civilization show.You see people dancing, swimming, smoking, enjoying themselves as if there were no tomorrow - or, more precisely, as if this new empire would indeed last a thousand years. A little bit of Jazz, the Zoo, a few brownshirts, and, oh yeah, Göring's Reichsluftfahrtministerium, with blueprints of Messerschmidt bombers on the fat pig's table, planning the subjugation of Europe while outside, pretty boys and girls enjoy the perfect summer,just as we do today.So much of Berlin 2008 is in post-modern denial of its past. War? What war? Hitler who? Who gives a s**t; a new Adidas flagship store just opened on Münzstraße. Hooray for the future!And still, if you look closely, you see the past. The bullet holes. The empty spots where some of these amazing buildings stood. The place where the Stadtschloss used to be, demolished by the Soviets, replaced by the socialist Palast der Republic, which also will be history in a few months - they are tearing it down in slow-motion, ecologically correct. The old Stadtschloss will be rebuilt in its place - *if* they can find the 700 million Euros required - and a purpose for the building, as we currently have no monarchy or ned for another f**king shopping mall.We'll see.A German author said that Berlin is the city cursed into always *becoming* something; never allowed to just *be*.True.
microview2007Aug 12, 2008
Too bad such a wonderful country full of beautiful people were later squashed to nothing. America can take a lesson and not let our leader do the same to us.