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What resemblance do today’s ethnonationalistic ideologies bear to those which surged during the rise of the Nazis in the Weimar-era? Quite a lot, this documentary shows. Germany’s far-right neo-nazi scene is now bigger than at any time since National Socialism. History may not repeat itself, but one can still learn from it. The years of the Weimar Republic were scarred by post-war trauma, political extremism, street fighting, hyper-inflation and widespread poverty. But they also saw economic boom, the establishment of a liberal democratic order and a parliamentary party system. Nobody could really imagine that the Nazis would brush aside the achievements of this young democracy just a few years later. But there were signs, warnings even that all was not well. So how does that resonate today? How do today’s right-wing populist movements and parties achieve their political aims? Which slogans, images and stereotypes played a role then, and which ones are playing a role now? The film also looks beyond Germany’s borders. How has Europe changed in the last few years and how have far-right movements been able to gain such influence? In the interwar period, democracies across the continent collapsed one after the other like a house of cards. What about today? Riding on the coat-tails of the political party the Alternative for Germany (AfD) the far-right has become a factor in both national and state parliaments, united by nationalist and often racist ideologies directly linked to those of the 1930s. At that time, global economic crisis and mass unemployment drove people straight into the fascists’ arms. So what will happen if crisis strikes now? Are our democracies and their achievements today any more stable than they were in the years before the Second World War? -------------------------------------------------------------------- DW Documentary gives you knowledge beyond the headlines. Watch high-class documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies. Meet intriguing people, travel to distant lands, get a look behind the complexities of daily life and build a deeper understanding of current affairs and global events. Subscribe and explore the world around you with DW Documentary. Subscribe to DW Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q?sub_confirmation=1# Our other YouTube channels: DW Documental (in spanish): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumental DW Documentary وثائقية دي دبليو: (in arabic): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocarabia For more documentaries visit also: http://www.dw.com/en/tv/docfilm/s-3610 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dwdocumentary/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dw.stories DW netiquette policy: https://p.dw.com/p/MF1G

The traditions of the German fraternities also draw on the ethnonationalist and antisemitic ideologies of the 1920s and ’30s. Then as now, fraternities serve as a breeding ground for radical right‐wing parties and think tanks, and for the hole right‐wing apparatus.

The German fraternities are still the élite schools of Germany’s extreme right. Their traditions are unchanged, but how much of this ethnonationalist ideology still remains? We meet the fraternity’s spokesman, Philip Stein, en Halle.

What I want is for peoples and populations to preserve their relative homogeneity; their traditions.

How’s that different from [German Fascism’s] racial theory?

Well, racial theory is based on something very different. Ethnicity doesn’t mean [that] everyone is blond, everyone has beautiful straight teeth or a particular shape of skull. A people is made up of a variety of qualities that have evolved organically over the centuries.

I’m asking about this tradition of racial theory because it also involved this fear of intermingling.

Well, as I’ve explained… kinship and identity, as well as language and religious confession, are some of the things that define a nation. And of course, kinship and identity include some things that have nothing to do with racial theory, but just with forms of expression, with human forms.

Like what?

Well, take a look around. It’s pretty easy for me to see that you’re a German, or European. So it’s pretty clear that certain physical characteristics define a people. Well, at least most of what I would call a people. That’s actually a pretty ordinary fact.

This is a pretty typical example of how neofascists talk: saying one thing only to immediately contradict it. Beware of that.

Oh, and at the risk of stating this obvious: this documentary contains some of the usual liberal oversimplifications, like claiming that the Fascists eliminated individuality (not really) and all dissent (another exaggeration), but hopefully you can spot those flaws on your own. This is otherwise worth watching.

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1887: Masaichi Niimi, Axis commander, was born.
1932: Imperial troops captured Harbin, Heilongjiang Province.
1933: Berlin issued an emergency decree outlawing both the gatherings and the publications of writings against the national government.
1938: The Third Reich’s head of state took direct control of the Wehrmacht as the Reich’s cabinet met for the last time. Likewise, Franz von Papen received a call at his office in Vienna, Austria from Hans Lammers in Berlin, noting that Papen was to be relieved of his duties in Austria. Meanwhile, Berlin promoted Hellmuth Felmy to the rank of General der Flieger, Walther von Brauchitsch to the rank of colonel general (generaloberst) and the Wehrmacht’s Commander‐in‐Chief, and it created the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), Supreme command of the Armed Forces. In China, Imperial troops inspected the buildings of Ginling College, a school for women in Nanjing and took at least twenty women for their ‘comfort houses’.
1939: The Kriegsmarine commissioned U‐52 into service.
1940: As the Imperial Japanese 26th Division captured Linhe, Suiyuan Province, Fascist submarine U‐37 (Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartmann) sank two merchant steamers whilst on patrol off the Shetland Islands.
1941: As Fascists began evacuating Benghazi, Libya and Düsseldorf experienced Allied bombardment, Axis submarine U‐52 sank Norwegian ship Ringhorn west of Ireland, slaughtering fourteen, and Axis submarine U‐123 sank British ship Empire Engineer one kilomile west of Ireland. Axis battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau broke out into the Atlantic Ocean via the Denmark Strait (undetected by the British Royal Navy).
1942: Egypt’s pro‐Axis King Farouk abidcated as Axis submarine U‐103 sank U.S. tanker India Arrow east of Delaware, massacring 26 of 38 aboard. Meanwhile, Axis troops under Lieutenant Tadaichi Noda executed 130 Australian prisoners of war by bayoneting and machine gunning at the Tol Plantation on the southern coast of Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain, and Noda ordered a message to be posted on the door of Tol noting that Australian Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Scanlan was responsible for these deaths for not having surrendered his command to the Axis. Coincidentally, Axis flying boats from Rabaul, New Britain assaulted Port Moresby, British Territory of Papua, destroying one house and two commercial buildings.
1943: A transport of 890 Jews from the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz. The authorities registered 48 of the 312 male prisoners and 52 of the female ones, but exterminated the remaining 790. Meanwhile, three days of national mourning began in the Third Reich over the disaster at Stalingrad; all of the Reich’s theatres, cinemas and night clubs closed. The Axis’s the dock facilities at Emden experienced an Allied bombing, and an Axis attempt to land at Malaya Zemlya failed due to Soviet intervention.
1944: The Axis began operations to relieve the Korsun/Cherkassy pocket in Ukraine as the Wehrmacht penetrated Allied lines at the Anzio beachhead in Italy and Frankfurt suffered an Allied bombing raid.
1945: About three thousand blokes evacuated from Stalag Luft III in Sagan and arrived at Marlag und Milag Nord prisoners of war camp in Westertimke. Belgium was reportedly free of Axis forces as of this date and the Axis lost a Ruhr dam to the U.S. First Army, but an Axis aircraft southwest of Palawan took out a U.S. submarine.
1951: Axis industrialist Alfried Krupp’s fellow anticommunists released him from prison early and planned to return $45,000,000 worth of his fortunes previously confiscated to him.