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victory of the will
Kieran 2022-03-26 09:01:14
This Nazi propaganda documentary filmed in 1935 is extremely elegant and shocking in terms of photography techniques, framing angles, and the overall planning of the scene. The highly provocative speech revealed the operating characteristics of the state apparatus at that moment. Many words, many expressions, and actions have a sense of deja vu. We can see a kind of centralized method of the ruling class, vague ideology, The strong nationalist sense of honor and the empty slogan have caused the collective to fall into an absurd hysterical frenzy. However, this kind of psychological defect of the crowd has been exploited again and again in the long history, and it has become a powerful basis for various types of democracy under the cleansing of various ideologies by different ideologies.
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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...
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Adolf Hitler: We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!