Two strategies for dealing with history

Maggie 2022-12-14 14:32:29

What a standard post-war liquidation film, the so-called post war justice? The film genre invented after World War II? Focusing on post-war issues, Germany's reflection on war issues is the most in-depth among the defeated countries. The movie has a very German flavor, the standards are rigorous and restrained, the camera language is beautiful, and the handsome German actors are also good-looking, especially the parallel editing of the last court trial scene is very beautiful, basically I can't pick out anything wrong, the movie is just the form, more importantly, I Presumably the movie also leads to two attitudes towards history by a flawed bill.

The Dreyer Act was criticized in the movie. The Dreyer Act helped many Nazi government personnel to be guilty at the time, allowing them to continue their bureaucratic careers in the new post-war government, or let Nazi officers continue to set up families and businesses in Germany as in the movie. immunity from trial. Looking at history, we can find that many Nazi officials in the post-war German government resumed their old jobs. First, because the new government could not jump out of a stone at once, and second, because if it was tired of trial, Germany in the war needed Countless people are responsible for the crimes, and everyone involved in the Nazi machine needs to be tried, and that would be a time-consuming, labor-intensive job of bringing the country to a standstill. The Dreyer Act has its historical limitations and injustices, probably because the official who made it worked in a Nazi courtroom and preferred to keep his sins in the past, or so to speak, in 1968 , the attitude of the whole new government is about the same.

This means that when we face history, there are usually two strategies, one is to speed up forgetting, and the other is to face it and move forward. The advantage of accelerating forgetting comes from quickly getting rid of the burden of history, so that the country will not stagnate and develop. The disadvantage is that when history is quickly thrown away, it is often tantamount to helping sins stay in the world. , the victims can receive the comfort they deserve. The disadvantage is that it may be more difficult to move forward after facing it directly. The burden of German history is so heavy that in that era, almost everyone was judged by everyone.

There are two trials in the movie, the first one was rejected directly in 1968, and the second one in 2001 seems to have been done. I can hardly say that the first time was unjust, and the second time was completely just. I can only say that I hope for world peace. .

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  • Friedrich 2022-03-20 09:02:53

    Ever since I read some books on criminal defense and gained the knowledge base, I have always been particularly enthusiastic about court trial movies! The whole story of the unfolding incidents, and finally led to the infamous EGOWiG (Dreyer Act), the Germans are always self-examining. Movie 4.5, but the protagonist’s fearless spirit of chasing the truth resonated with me and I highly recommend it. Whatever you want, only the word justice.

  • Alexa 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    Actually, I really want to know what the judge would do if Corinne hadn’t committed suicide.