A lot actually.Exterminas said:
After two attempts to conquer the world, I hardly trust Germany. To me it hasn't seemed to change much either. I find it kind of ironic that one of their big attitudes nowadays is that "well we hate the Nazis so much that we oppress free speech to avoid talking about them". I find it kind of ironic that Germany continues to practice what seems to be massive information control, while trying to sell it as being something positive. Or at least that's how it looks to me. I mean I don't care if they are pulling the Swatstikas out of something or whatever, it's still censorship.
Now granted, I don't see Germany having the military power to engage in armed conquest anytime soon, but the rate at which it's recovered is absolutly staggering, and also it has become a very powerful and aggressive economy, and it seems to me that a lot of Europe's finances right now are going through Germany via the EU.
In the case of this movie however it's not really about Germany but the Nazis, I *DO* actually seperate the two, though not as much as people might like (going into this would be a whole differant rant though). While based in Germany and run by Hitler, the Nazis were a massive international movement. One of the reasons why the US had so much propaganda and information control is that there were a lot of people in the US who supported them big time. Remember, Hitler was an international man of the year.
Truthfully it would upset a lot of people, but I've been of the opinion for a while that we need to get away from the "Hollywood Nazis" stereotype. The premise of this movie is fine, but overall I'd think that if the Nazis pretty much fled to the moon base at thw 11th hour a decent portion of them wouldn't have been German. I'm sure France would scream and yell, but one of the things about World War II is that France welcomed the Nazis more or less. Sure there were patriots and hold outs, but by and large after France's 'defeat' the resistance was largely exagerrated. It's just when the tide turned, France more or less changed sides again. People don't seem to realize that especially at that tech level everything came down to how many boots you could put on the ground in the end. The Nazis were not some tiny group of Germans oppressing their people and somehow conquering the rest of the world. They simply wouldn't have had the manpower to do it. They were based in German, and lead largely by Germans, but had massive amounts of people from all over the world, which is why they were able to hold territory. Germany didn't have the manpower.
Countries like Romania were especially enthusiastic about Nazism, The Holocaust, and everything else. The promise of the "Re-Romanianization of property" from the Jews was a big deal.
Still, when is the last time you've seen a nazi in uniform speaking with a Romanian, French, or Italian accent? I think the majority of the blame does fall on Germany, but I think it's kind of unfair to exclusively point fingers at the Germans when a lot of that manpower, and a lot of those atrocities, were being comitted by people who were literally from all over the globe.
I doubt this movie will go there, but spreading the blame around a bit might be a little more fair. It won't make me any more trusting of Germany, but at least they won't be being picked on exclusively. The Nazi high command was bad, but the guys who snapped into line with their initial successes and conquests were to blame true. I pick on Romania largely because according to some things I've read, they were some of the most fanatical about joining up. I believe a lot of Romanians were supposed to have died (along with people from all over Europe, but a big number of the Romanian recruits) in the Russian Campaign.
