I just saw the German film: "Leningrad Symphony"
In my eyes it is again a heavely biased, German recent war film socalled based on real facts. It remembers me about: "Unsere Mütter, unser Väter". I discussed it in the time with the German Thomas on the ex-BBC and even he, for whom I had great esteem, defended the German film stance...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_WarThe trailer of the Leningrad Symphony film with English subtitles:
http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/leningrad-symphony-2What hurts me, the Nazis aren't mentioned at random and the poor soldiers, as the son of one of the soldiers declares in the film, his father was nearly a victim of the war started by the Hitler invasion on 22 June. Continuously they put the emphasis on the Stalin shadow and the listening apparats in the several locations as the one of Shostacovitch and others, who have daily to fear for their lives. I remember an interview with Shostacovitch, wer he said: each time that i received a phone call I feared for my life...But was it on the Nazi side otherwise?
Constantly I have the impression that the Soviet regime is targeted, while the Nazi atrocities aren't mentioned. For me the bias drips from the screen
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It remembers of the German Historikerstreit, were the Hitler regime is equated with the Stalin regime. There was a never ending thread on Historum too, where I said that the Nazi regime was special, while the Soviet dictatorship was "normal" (how atrocious this repression may have been), while it only murdered people for their resistance and not as the Nazis for not being embedded in the "Arian" "volk".
It remembers me also about Deinze May 1940, some years before I was born...the battle of the Lys...because a whole garnison from near Ghent had surrendered at the Lys, but then the Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais had started a stiff resistance to the Germans in Deinze, laying between the deviation channel of the Lys and the Lys, the Germans were so frustrated that they put the civilans of Deinze, among them my uncle, as living shield to progress against the Belgians...28 were killed on that market place...
during the war and even afterwards, the Germans said that it was the fault of the civilians, who had shot on them...lies of course...but even Belgians believed that propaganda and white washed the Germans...of course these days we have seen that many atrocities during the civil wars...for instance in my opinion shooting of the rebels on their own civilians if they want to leave along the corridor in the latest episode of the Syrian war near Damascus...
Hmm, rant over...
I have the film only in French for MM and in German for Nielsen, so that they can judge for their own.... you can watch them until April...I will show them in an addendum.
Kind regards Paul.
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