Pirates of the Third Reich

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2009)

Not bad at all. I've never been a fan of WWII films but recently I've become obsessed with reading about the war as there are so many intriguing things especially as we move chronologically away from it more and more things become declassified such as the occult obsessions of the Third Reich, the NAZI connections to NASA's space race, the development of flying discs by NAZI scientists, the immense funding of the Third Reich by the Bank of England and bankers on Wall Street, the development of IMB's punch-card systems to single out the 'inferior types' (which to this day IBM whinge they had no idea about) and more known things like the influence of Darwinism on National Socialism in the early 20thC, and more specifically the horrific application of the pseudo 'science' of eugenics, a term coined by Darwin's nephew Francis Galton. If I'd have learned all that in school I might have been more interested in history - of course it's not convenient to tell everyone the whole truth so many of us 'allies' are in the dark about the facts that some nutters in Germany were funded, influenced and inspired by the Anglo-American establishment. Then of course if the people of the time had known this it would have vastly damaged morale and the war may have been different... who knows. Anyway Europe was destroyed leading it to be rebuilt into this fabulous integrated trading 'blok' of the E.U. making the road to global governance much easier. - Clearly it's pertinent to add the Nazis and Hitler and Himmler took perfection of the species through negative eugenics to an insane level, quite unlike the eugenics societies of the United States and Europe. Of course hopefully the new global system will be benevolent and will address the enormous issues running amok - such as the corporation, the real Terminator, or golem, or monster which we've created...
All the things which are insubstantially mentioned above are demonstrably documented in various interviews, papers, and books - most notably the works of Anthony Sutton, Edwin Black, Richard Weikart, countless RIIA, CFR, League of Nations, United Nations and other sources writings over the last couple of centuries.
Anyway I digress. It would be nice to have a film about all the really interesting stuff like what I mentioned above but it's never going to happen, I'd have to make it myself - all we have is the conventional vastly boring due to huge omission of vital details history, or the conspiracy psychos. But as a piece of conventional history this does the job fine - it is indeed a compelling story of Herr Stauffenberg and the internal resistance. I read about the event in the book 'Agent Zigzag' - well worth checking out - and so when I saw there was a new film of course I was compelled to check it out. It's quite humorous to observe that half the cast from Pirates of the Caribbean are here - and an appearance from Eddie Izzard is always a nice change from seeing him trannied up telling jokes on stage. I'm always in two minds about Tom Cruise because it doesn't seem like there's ever any real emotion there. It would have been nice to have some consistency in the accents, even if everyone tried to make a subtle attempt at German sounds - but maybe this could have been insulting, I don't know. It would have been nice to have more German actors but as a commercial Hollywood film it's never going to happen is it. They have to ensure popularity and remuneration on the release.
This film is well worth watching for those interested in the history and those who are not. These kinds of films are singularly important to counter the massive propaganda throughout the whole 20th Century demonising the German people as a whole and to clarify that the maniacs who ended up taking control for all those years were not supported by their whole institution - which ultimately was the downfall and internally brought down or rendered ineffective the secret services, the military, civilian and governmental systems from complete adherence to the cause of Germany. And what a relief to everyone who lived to tell the tale.
Other films viewers of this may be interested in and have been referred to by other reviews are 'Der Untergang' (Downfall) and 'Die Welle' (The Wave) - the latter which is a German retelling of a social experiment carried out by a Californian teacher and his class in the sixties (seventies?).