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Berlin Olympics

posted 13 years ago by mofotweeter
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I'm shocked that nothing was noted about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Nazi aesthetics and the glorification of not only the German race but also their classical antiquity style of architecture and sculptures. This was a significant moment in Nazi history that helped create their image and it was completely ignored by the director Peter Cohen. Yet for some reason he focused greatly on the way Nazi's exterminated "inferior" races of Germans. Which had nothing to do with the aesthetics of Nazi culture. Other than that i loved this informative film.

[–] AssetsonFire 10 years ago

The link between the aesthetics of Nazi culture (and rejection of 'degenerate art') and their attitude towards unwanted peoples was made quite clear. In fact, the Nazis themselves were shown to have drawn the parallel. To have ignored the holocaust would have been to have missed the natural extension of these ideas and the point of the film.

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[–] Ethereal-Cloud 10 years ago

Did you notice that the 'degenerate art' tended to be more aesthetically interesting than the Nazi party-approved stuff?

[–] chrissso 8 years ago

That would be your opinion. In mine I some of the approved stuff was pretty remarkable and over all better. The degenerate art seemed rather nightmarish.

[–] Bresson2 8 years ago

Absolutely right, Ethereal-Cloud. The 'degenerate' stuff was the real art, unafraid to look life in the eye and committed to the different artists' points of view. This is in complete contrast to the Nazi crap, which hides from life behind grandiosely inflated Aryan kitsch.

I wouldn't give much weight to chrissso's remark. It comes from someone who gave Bresson's "A Man Escaped" a two-star rating.