Wednesday, December 06, 2006

For Later Viewing

Just popping these up here for my later viewing.



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8 Comments:

Chris said...

Who did these videos? I got about 5 minutes into them and they just seem like its full of so much trash and half truths that I stopped watching.

Some of the video protraying nazi's seems fake too.

6:40 PM  
Gophur said...

I'm not sure really. I found them in OT and they are propaganda films. While I really don't go in much for the Nazi history in particular I grew up during the cold war and have always had a keen interest in propaganda. That and a general interest in Illuminati/occult fantasy which stems from to much Robert Antone Wilson and H.P. Lovecraft in my formative years. The art in my house is mostly old soviet propaganda posters and I tend still to read a lot of templar and masonic history and fiction.

I was led to believe that these films deal largely with Hitler's interest in the occult so I thought they might be interesting. Apparently they have been shown nationally in the past (Discovery?) and I seem to have missed them.

9:07 AM  
mwhitman said...

Yep. both been on the History channel & other of that type many times.

Some OK bits, usual bits of truth, bit of roumors & a bit of guess work.
Interesting enough to be worth watching.

3:05 PM  
Chris said...

Hmm, I always thought that Hitler's interest in the occult was a fairy tale. Things that make great stories but not great history. The history channel is very credible. I wonder how much of this is true. I also wonder how much of this is over dramatization. IE: did Hitler have a crazy obsession with the occult or did he try everything in the world to get as much power as possible (whether or not he thinks it would work).

-gnpatton

4:25 PM  
mwhitman said...

The History channal is fine, however not all programs where made/comissioned by them and not everything you will see on such channels is 100% historical fact.

YOu just have to keep an open mind on what you see, and occasionaly do a little research to get the other side/versions of a story.

My favorate thing on the history channels are the use of stock footage to show all kind of things.

e.g. a certain battleship sinking in the Med used to show at least 7 different ships sinking!

One thing I love about WWIIOL is it gets people into actualy recognision WWII equipment, e.g. not just classing all German tanks as a 'panzer', so that when they then see programs on the TV they recognise if what they are been shown is actualy what they are beening told about.

3:31 AM  
JWilly said...

Actually, all German tanks *are* panzers, in German. As are all tanks of any other nationality.

Just as all tanks are chars (of one sort or another) in French.

8^)

8:27 AM  
mwhitman said...

DOH, I originaly did write in brackets after that statement that I do know that from a German perspective that all tanks ARE panzers!

Guess I should have left that bit in.

4:11 PM  
Anonymous said...

Propaganda... I worke witha CUban doctor one time...we were going on a marketing trip he said..."Do you have the propaganda?"

Think of that from time to time

Merc88

9:11 PM  

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