It seemed the tides had turned. I had been promoted to the position of Propaganda Minister for the Nazi Party. While I was initially excited about this promotion, the power and influence I had expected to gain never came. I did my job as dutifully as I could, creating incisive and educational movies that I felt were pertinent to the Nazi cause. Hitler and the party it seemed didn’t feel the same way. I found myself being left out of important Nazi meetings and I was increasingly shunned from the decision making process. In a few short years everything had changed. I felt stifled, I could not influence the people the way I wanted, but I was still loyal to the party and the cause. I felt the only way to regain my power was by appealing to Hitler’s one weakness, the Jewish population. I created movie after movie about those Jews. I wasted precious moments of my life, taking about an irrelevant topic. These were not the type of movies I wanted to create, but they were appealing to the public and to Hitler, so I kept filming them. These movies helped me hang onto my last shreds of power, until one day even these stopped working. My position as minister was now just a title. There was no longer a need for my films. Socialism had almost been completely eradicated, the Jews were being sent to work camps, and almost all the Nazi party’s enemies had been exterminated. For the first time in a long time I felt like I didn’t belong.
Now you understand where I come from. My art sets me apart from others. You must learn how to embrace your uniqueness and take advantage of it. You will not be known if you are exactly the same as all the other Nazi soldiers. And you being in favor of the Nazi regime is none of my concern, because regardless of who is in power, I am still Surrealism.
ReplyDelete:)
Shame on you for filming such blasphemy in Germany. Even though Jews are not in the pure Aryan race, they should not be treated in such gruesome ways. Instead of filming the Jews as a way to denounce them, you should have filmed the evil deeds Hitler was planning. After I stepped down from presidency, Germany became a totalitarian state. The thought of Hitler rising to power in Germany gives me chills.
ReplyDeleteYes, these certainly are good qualities found in a man. However, you are not a man. Who can call themselves human when they support such a cruel, bloodthirsty regime? The Jewish people, they are human are they not? A few years ago they had been living peacefully among us. Yet in so short a time they are now thought of as bugs. As insignificant. They are now suffering through unthinkable cruelty, yet you call yourself a man for supporting such injustice? You are a shame who does not even deserve to be called German. You, the Nazis, Hitler. You will all soon be overthrown!
ReplyDelete-Kurt Huber
White Rose Movement