In this process, the good students and the poor students become a group and help each other. When a student was bullied by a hooligan, members of the other two waves he saw came to help; a student could not feel caring at home, but found the warmth of home in the group. So far it seems to be all in harmony.
However, things gradually changed, and they began to pick quarrels and stir up trouble, participating in activities to exclude non-Tide members. The week-long class, at the end of which the teacher called them into the auditorium, gave a speech on current politics in Germany, calling on the students to push the spirit of the "wave" across the country, sweeping Germany, and to the cheers of the students, the opponents Escorted to the podium in the auditorium and asked everyone what to do. At this time the teacher asked: If I want to execute him: hang him or burn him, will you support me? Do you know what you are doing?
So these students who, a week ago, did not think that any fascism would happen to them, have already become fascists without even knowing what fascism is.
The highlight of this film is: why are the children who were poor students, the children who couldn't find friends and relatives in their life, why can't they be happy in the German democratic government? And being cared and happy in this "fascist" group?
Leaving this aside, let’s reflect on why the country’s largest political organization was supported and admired by thousands of people when it was still in the revolutionary base in the countryside. Because it allows the peasants and citizens who were persecuted and oppressed to find a sense of belonging and to feel that there is an organized care for them. I believe that for many of them, there may be no ideology at all, or even literacy, but they can feel at home in this organization.
We can easily find that the early and middle stages of fascism are so strikingly similar to the early and middle stages of communism! Their original intentions are so idealistic and romantic, so hopeful to eliminate oppression and exploitation, so hopeful to bring happiness to all in the collective. In fact, when many people call "Nazi", they forget its own name - "National Socialist Party".
I have said that if I had to choose a dictatorship, I would rather choose the Nazis. Because the core of the struggle of the Nazis is chauvinism, which believes that the nation is superior to everything else, causing the invasion of foreign enemies; while the core of the Communist Party is class struggle, eliminating all internal reactionary classes. So from a historical point of view, the Nazis are often killing foreigners and Jews; while we are often killing Chinese people, our own people. In fact, during the period of 1976, more people died in China than in the European battlefields of World War II combined.
However, just from the movie, the teacher stopped this teaching experiment when a Nazi organization was about to enter the middle stage of development. Even so, one student was shot and one student committed suicide. When a movement develops, it is often beyond the control of the initiator. During the French Revolution, Robespierre signed thousands of catastrophic decrees, but he once opposed the death penalty in parliament; Danton, although the founder of the murder court, shouted "I would rather die under a guillotine than die under a guillotine." send others to the guillotine." These idealists tend to kill more than the hardest realists, and often they are bound by what they once said. They incited the people with death penalty, war and betrayal, but when the people really demanded them to fulfill their promises, they had to go against their own heart and cause more and more killings. Whether it is an enemy outside the system or an opponent within the system, they must be ruthless and finally turn themselves into an executioner.
The idealists must have been frightened when they were forced to become executioners by external forces. However, when they found out, everything went in the direction of worshipping themselves. They find it easy to achieve whatever they want. So when Taizu warned against the sugar-coated cannonballs of capitalism, he was already hit by another cannonball called "power". Orwell said in Nineteen Eighty-Four: The only purpose of power is to seize greater power, and there is no other (I paraphrase). And the shells of capitalism are bound by democratic politics, and power is locked in a cage. Although it is also harmful, it cannot be serious. Fascism or communism reaches its climax when it abandons its original ideals and becomes a stark personality cult. The head of state mein fur, or dear chairman, turns the wheel of war. One is going outward, reaching Siberia, reaching the Mediterranean Sea, reaching North Africa, and reaching the British Isles; one is going inward, with anti-rightist, land reform, Great Leap Forward, and Cultural Revolution. Life is reaped like rice.
In comparison, one of them endangered the lives and territories of other countries and was strangled by the allies; one of them ate and drank the flesh and blood of his own citizens, and produced the cheapest labor force in the world, but brought economic benefits to other countries. development and thus be preserved. I don't think it's hard to see why, when I have to make a choice, I'd rather choose the former. Because I prefer the former, which is more full of idealistic feelings, than the latter, who pursues the wealth of the country and vested interests purely by egoism.
Judging from the tide, the so-called GDR has not solved the sorrow of those children who are not warm and cared, and has not given them a chance to pay attention. Instead, that variant of fascism gave them that opportunity. That's exactly what's wrong with those democracies, and that's why we're always preaching the goodness of our system and the badness of American-style democracy. But it turns out that democracy behind universal values is far less harmful than collective hysteria from the perspective of all of humanity and society. The lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils, and I think that explains why the current one should be discarded or the current one transformed.
And that's what I'm writing this review for.
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