Reviews for Nazism

[XjokerX]

Nazism and not Facism

I understood what you were trying to do in tis piece, however I wonder how far off the mark you fell from the original assignment. Nazism in it's extremes is still a radical "positivist" Facist movement. What was depicted in the film was Nazistic actions of the Third Reich and Hitler's insanity.
The Problem I had with this, AS A JEW, was the fact that you misrepresented Klepfisz's statement about the Holocaust. "...the Holocaust has been like a fad...it has been commericialized, metaphored out of reality, glamorized, been severed from historical fact."
This is exactly what you're doing- though (I would hope) you are sympathetic to the 10mil people who died in Himmler's death Camps this film only further removes the Holocaust from the actual event. Nazism was an excuse for Hitler's insane regime-- remember Aryan's presupposedly evolved from the original Romans and as such, Hitler was an extremist in the occult and other aspects of mysticism. The extermination of the "undesireables" came on the part of his advisors as opposed to deporting them.
In all- as an outspoken member of the Jewish community I thank you for a tasteful and touching rememberance to the horrors of 1930's-40's Europe.

NathanButchart responds:

I had to cut some of Klepfisz' quote so people would have enough time to read it, and I think i still did justice to it's meaning. Thanks for your opinion.

[Huskerman2004]

good

I really liked this flash and the point it got across. I really liked it but the 100% stayed through the entire movie. Other than that I think you did a great job.

NathanButchart responds:

At least I did what I set out to do. Thanks.

[ArcasDravenchild]

ok

decent flash, pretty sweet choice of music, but I think you really over-simplified in saying that the holocaust was entirely because of Hitler. in all honesty, germany was going to have a totalitarian, anti-semetic, facist state, whether or not Hitler came to power. and lets face it, someone else probably would have thought of it. it's sad, but thats where germany was going, hitler or no.

NathanButchart responds:

Germany was in a rut when Hitler came into power, and I didn't mean to say that Hitler was the one and only cause of the holocaust. Hitler took advantage of Germany by giving them a scapegoat for their loss in WWI, an idea that was appealing as hell, at the time. Imagine if you had just lost a war that involved the entire world...wouldn't you be eager to move the blame and direct your anger towards someone else?

[TheMarquisDuSarde]

Interesting work

Emotionally powerful yes, and it's simplicity does lend itself to the message you are trying to get across. But Hitler was not the only person behind the holocaust, he was allowed to become chancellor because the leader of Germany (his name escapes me at the moment) thought he could control him. He won the nation's heart by preaching everything they wanted to hear, revenge on the Weimar democracy for signing the treaty of versailles, economic reforms, anti-communism and revenge on the rest of europe. He preached about a Germany united once again behind one strong leader and this is what everyone else wanted too hear. He was a powerful orator and a brilliant speach maker. Once he gained full power he used the Jewish, a people already persecuted throughout europe for many centuries, as a scapegoat, along with gypsies, homosexuals etc. It was his original intention to have them deported, but with the conquest of Poland (a land rich with Jewish) he had too find something else too do. The Nazi party chose genocide, not just Hitler. The nazi party used the Jewish so they could concentrate on their imperialistic aims, the traged of the holocaust was not due to the actions of just one man.

NathanButchart responds:

I know and realize all of this, and I think there may be a fundamental problem in my flash because this keeps on coming up over and over again. I think I need to tweak it a bit.

[nagnell]

surprisingly shocking

When I watched the first few seconds of this flash the first thing that came to mind was, well, it would be really easy to make a moving piece about the holocaust by simply showing pictures flashing along with music. In a way, the ease by which this flash was made is a bit of an insult. What right does one person have who never experienced the holocaust, who probably doesn't even know anyone person who has experienced the holocaust, to simply use pictures and put them to music in order to express what happened. However, the quotes were quite moving, and by the end of the flash I felt that it was worth making.

NathanButchart responds:

I don't think that anyone who has never experianced the Holocaust could ever make a piece of art that repersents and embodies it fully, and I don't claim to have even come close to embodying the horrors that occured at that time, but I don't think that the fact that it's simple is an insult. I really put a lot of thought into how I was going to do this, and I think that justifies how I made this. I wasn't thinking "Wow, that would easy as hell!" I was thinking, "Wow, that would have a great effect."