Is there anything out there which shows Nazis as the good guys?

There is this one movie about Nazi mountain climbers called "North Face" that is very good.

Another good one is "Downfall" that focuses more on the top Nazi's (Hitler in-particular) in their final days before losing the war. Doesn't really make them out to be "the good guys" but shows not all of the Nazi top brass were evil movie villains. Hitler is still a paranoid power mad *beep* in it, but it paints much of his support staff and his wife in a good light. Goebbels is a real piece of *beep* in it tho as in life.

I know there are 1 or 2 more I have seen but they were probably like sci-fi or something, not very good if I can't remember them.

"Nobody knows anybody, not that well..." - Miller's Crossing

The Desert Fox or anything else about Irwin Rommel, although he never joined the Nazi Party and ended up in a plot to kill Hitler at the end of his life. As far as something who depicted actual real Nazis who bought into the propaganda in a positive light....I doubt you will find anything.

Das Boot would be an example of what you are looking for.
A World War II movie from the German perspective, but it does not glorify Nazis.


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You might want to check out Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron" -- you might say it's kind of a Viet Nam war film, but set on the German side of the Russian Front in WW II.

Then there is Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie", about the plot to kill Hitler.

Interestingly enough, there are real historical figures who were high-ranking Nazis who also defied Nazi leadership who would probably make for fascinating films.

SS Obergruppenfuhrer and General Willhelm Bittrich is one -- a successful field commander who brought procedures against subordinates who executed French resistance leaders, pledged his troops to Rommel should a plot against Hitler succeed, resisted even the forced attempt to have his command replaced and refused orders to defend Vienna and pulled his troops out to save the city near the end of the war.

I could see his story being made into a fascinating movie, but I doubt that anyone would have the courage to make a film about a Nazi leader that might place him in a good light.

It's been my understanding that you could group the senior Nazi leadership roughly into two camps -- die-hard Nazis who were dedicated to Hitler and his madness on one side, and then officers who had been brought up in a much more traditional culture of military leadership based on honor and virtue.

The latter thought a lot of the Nazi leaders were morons and idiots and actually did engage in a fair amount of passive resistance to the ideological/racial purity goals of the Nazi party. And of course after the serial disasters and ignored advice from the Russian front you ended up with the plot to kill Hitler.

I think "Cross of Iron" gives a good flavor of this kind of "true soldier" vs. ideologue conflict, which kind of gives it the eerie parallels to the US experience in Viet Nam where real soldiers and military officers were frustrated and appalled by the political machinations that led to so many problems.

Well thanks everyone...it took 5 posts to finally get an answer, as the administrators kept taking this topic down.

What about "The Young Lions?" Brando as a German soldier with doubts about the war.

I know!! There were other positive things about Hitler and the Nazi regime, that never ever get any kind of recognition. These facts are never revealed or taught as history as the New World Order do not want to glorify anything except themselves in regard to WW2. Hitler may have had grandiose ambitions, but he certainly had balls, and puts the current world leaders look like a bunch of dummies. Hitler wouldnt have put up with ISIS, they would have been to scared to even mutter Allah Akbar!
Stop bagging Hitler just because he wanted to rule the world, it took a bunch of coalition to beat him, there was more to this part of history that meets the eye

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Good guys - no, because they weren't and can't be the good guys. What most people don't get (even though I think it is made very clear by the fear of the Japanese in the series) is that Fashism is absolute by its nature. There is no stopping, there is no relief until the final solution is achieved. The worldwide Nazi empire and then some. That absolute claim of supremacy puts any non-arian in a cast-like system of servitude to the Reich. Everyone is inferior - except Germans. An interesting thing to mention here is that Plato once wrote: all men are equal, except for slaves and women. Even the greatest minds can be distracted by their education and norms around them. If you grew up in a Nazi empire you would learn little about compassion or forgiveness.

Interestingly, much of today's society behaves in that way toward each other. So in a way the Nazi-ideology permeates modern efficient work ethics. Harry Truman once wrote: A society will be judged by the way it treats its weakest members.

I can recommend another book to you: Mephisto by Klaus Mann (son of Thomas Mann). Even though the book is about an actor in the Nazi Reich, it has always been the most poingnant and devastating picture of how fashism corrupts people. It has some appeal, because we all like to think we would thrive in such an empire. But we wouldn't. We would put an end to liberty, free thought, artistic freedom and love. That's why we have to fight fashism, no matter if it calls itself ISIS or Tausendjähriges Reich. If you couldn't tell by now - I'm German. And while I'm too young to be responsible for the sins of my grandparent's generation, I am wise enough to know it must never be repeated.