The Triumph of the Will - The Mapping of the National Character

Betsy 2022-04-20 09:02:48

From the perspective of photography skills, Lenny's work can be said to be a textbook in the history of film, influencing later generations of photographers. In terms of subject matter, Triumph of the Will is a demonstration of national cohesion with leader worship as the axis. It has to be said that it is dictatorial and dense. History can be dressed up, but hatred is not born out of nothing. While reflecting on World War II, did the victorious countries think about whether the unequal and punitive treaties of the First World War were the most basic flames that ignited the anger of the Germans? Hitler only spoke out the hatred that most Germans had for 20 years. Many people said that Hitler's speech didn't move me because we didn't listen to it from the perspective of the Germans, just as Western countries didn't understand the tragic Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of the Chinese people. The injustice of the Treaty of Versailles was unforgettable for the Germans. A large part of the German mainland was divided up in World War I, including Danzig (formerly German territory), where World War II was first triggered. From the German plan before World War II, it is not difficult to see step by step that Germany was recovering its territory, and the expansion of the war came later. , I am afraid that Hitler himself did not expect Britain and France to declare war.
In fact, most Chinese people don't know much about their own country. Throwing southern Tibet to India was said to be the bearing of a big country, and was said to "leave it for future generations to solve it". History textbooks don't even mention it. Although Germany was defeated, not to mention the crime of massacres of Jews, but at least it made efforts to restore the lost interests of Germany.

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    subtitle: The documentary of the Reich Party Congress, 1934 - Produced by order of the Führer.

    Opening crawl: On September 5, 1934, 20 years after the outbreak of the World War, 16 years after Germany's Suffering, 19 months after the beginning of the German Rebirth, Adolf Hitler again flew to Nuremberg to review the assembly of his faithful followers.

    crowd: [for more than 20 minutes, there is only one discernible word:] Heil! Heil! Heil!...

    Rudolf Hess: I open the sixth Party Congress in respectful memory of he who has passed on to eternity, Field Marshal and Reich President von Hindenburg...

  • Adolf Hitler: We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!