The Triumph of Will

Only watch this film if for some crazy reason you are exactly like me and have a sick fascination about the holocaust.  My particular interest is the psychology of Hitler and how a civilized nation could fall prey to this man.  In some ways Hitler is a study of success and ultimately failure.  But his rise to power and how he abused that power is captivating.

I can't get enough, so now I'm watching every single movie made concerning that time period:  fact or fiction, American or foreign.

The Triumph of Will was actually a Nazi propaganda film from that era.  The producers (or editors or whoever) kindly added English subtitles, although there was a lot more marching, flag waving and tedious black and white visuals like "flying about the clouds," than Nazi leaders speechifying.  Speaking of speeches, I think something was lost in translation, because I could not figure out what Hitler said that rallied so many people around him.  Perhaps it is simply my inability to truly understand the culture and the context of the times; but neither am I a nationalist or a flag worshipper, nor do I tend to set people up on pedestals... especially when it's so much more fun to try and knock them down.