Germans have always been a strange nation. For the vast majority of Chinese people, Germany and Germans arouse their honeyed affection. In China, Nazi salutes can be used as a joke on a daily basis, "above all" And "Long Live Hitler" can also be shouted in public, although not many people really understand what it is, let alone "Horst Wiesel Song" once used as a procession march. If you want to trace everything back, maybe start with Brandt on December 7, 1970.
Then at the very beginning, it wasn't like that. The movie tells us what the Federal Republic looked like before Brandt got down on his knees.
It is hard for the Chinese now to imagine that in 1958 at the beginning of the film, no Germans knew about the Holocaust, no one even heard of Auschwitz, everything about the Third Reich was artificially forgotten, the avalanche No snowflake is innocent. Before 1945, the Nazis had invaded all corners of society. Anyone's parents, elders, teachers, and bosses may have been Nazis. You can't let children ask their father: Hey, you Was it a Nazi before? Then why don't you kill yourself?
This is the core idea of the Adenauer government.
In fact, there were indeed too many Nazis hiding in the upper echelons of the Adenauer government. On the eve of the fall of the Third Reich, a large number of middle and high-level leaders fled to South America. Living in the DDR, they are the social core that constitutes the BRD and the DDR, and in a sense, it is also a continuation of the Third Reich.
It was not until Adenauer resigned on October 15, 1963 that the German people's reflection on the Nazis gradually began. The whole introversion continued from 1963 to 1968, which was a kind of purification for the German nation. , these acts are always legal acts. The so-called legal acts, that is, there must be clear victims and clear means of crime, which is far from enough for this nation.
In the movie "The Reader", the young Misha knew Hannah in 1958, and the trial of Hannah in 1966. The consistency of time between the two films actually just illustrates the history of Germany.
Hesse Attorney General Fritz Bauer, played by Gert Wirth in the film, is a historically famous figure who planned the arrest of Eichmann and was initially contacted by him. According to the memoirs of Mossad chief Harel, Mossad targeted Eichmann and Mengele at that time, but the situation was urgent when they were captured. Due to international pressure, he had to leave Argentina immediately. However, whether it is West Germany or Israel, even Eichmann and Mengele, they all know that the so-called arrest is over. other high-ranking Nazis, since most of them were always in Germany, it is hard to imagine that even Kissinger, the third chancellor of West Germany, joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and became Goebbels in 1939. main assistant.
The capture of Eichmann took place on May 11, 1960, which is alluded to in the film. For Mengele, historically his father Karl Mengele died in 1959. According to the movie description, he attended his father's funeral and returned to Germany briefly a year later, when Eichmann was arrested. After that, the time also coincided with Mengele thinking he was safe.
Historically, Mengele went to Brazil after leaving Germany in 1960, and lived there until he drowned on February 7, 1979. He was a very cold-blooded person and the hero of various street stall literature, legendary The mastermind behind the creation of conjoined twins and live-dyed eyeballs, who left an estate for the city, told his son Rolf Mengele before he died that he had harmed no one.
Therefore, the Germans are a very strange nation. On the one hand, they detest the Nazis, and even have some shadows. On the other hand, they have been enjoying the dividends brought by the Nazis. They always feel that they have done well, but their fundamental soul has never been touch.
For example, on September 30, 2021, the trial of a 96-year-old female secretary of a concentration camp took place like a farce. On the eve of the trial, the female secretary suddenly fled and was arrested four hours later. The German government's trial of the 96-year-old is certainly awe-inspiring, but how many people really think about why this happened?
Going back to the male protagonist's girlfriend, there is a scene in the film where the male protagonist takes her home and hears her father and comrades singing upstairs downstairs. Song", in fact, I already knew the identity of the other party at this moment. After 1945, this song was banned. Maybe except China, no one really let this song go.
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