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y cfr. mis comentarios 40 – 43 en el Diario de Cádiz.
Roger Friedman (FoxNews): ‘Is Horrible ‘Valkyrie’ Tom Cruise’s Nazi Apologia?’
Roger Friedman escribí en el día 26 de diciembre 2008 en Fox News, página de web de un canal estadounidense de televisión:
‘Director Bryan Singer is so sparing with his Nazi flags, swastikas, etc that you’d think the Nazis hardly existed. What’s everyone so upset about anyway? Because in “Valkyrie” Singer opens the door to a dangerous new thought: that the Holocaust and all the other atrocities could be of secondary important to the cause of German patriotism. Not once in “Valkyrie” do any of there “heroes” mention what’s happening around them, that any of them is appalled by or against what they know is happening or has happened: Hitler has systemically killed millions in the most’
‘Singer has said in interviews: “I think it’s very important for us and for history to know that not all Germans were Nazis and that some paid with their lives for opposing Hitler.” Frankly, this is a mistake. Is he really suggesting that the extermination of 6 million people was carried out without the complicity of these so-called non-Nazi Germans? Because that opens the door to a lot of other questions. I can only think of the Holocaust survivor in James Moll’s amazing documentary, “The Last Days,” who confronts her Hungarian neighbors 50 years later. “Didn’t you wonder what happened to us?” she asks.’
‘The characters they played were German army just as brutal as Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler. If they’d succeeded in killing Hitler, there was no guarantee anything would have changed. And that wasn’t their point anyway.’
‘The real story of “Valkyrie” is that is infighting among the enemy.’
Joe Allen (Green Left Weekly Australia): The good Germans?
Joe Allen escribí en el día 30 de enero 2009 en la página greenleft.org.au (en 2005 clasificado como “most popular Australian-based political site“):
‘What is the message of the film? Cruise and other characters repeatedly tell us that they want the world to know that “we are all not like him (Hitler)”. The problem with focusing a film on the July 20 conspirators is that many of them were a lot like Hitler.
Take, for example, retired General Ludwig Beck (Terence Stamp). The conspirators wanted him to be the head of the new provisional government after Hitler’s death.
In 1933, upon witnessing the Nazi seizure of power, Beck wrote, “I have wished for years for the political revolution, and now my wishes have come true. It is the first ray of hope since 1918.” ‘
‘This is also true of Stauffenberg’s brothers, who are absent from the film, but were central to the July 20 plot. According to historian Peter Hoffmann in his book German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-45, “The Stauffenberg brothers initially accepted as sound much of the Nazi program; the leadership principle based on expertise and authority; a naturally ranked social order; Volskgemeinschaft, or national community … concepts of race or a pure nationhood; and the determination to have a new German legal system.”
You get not even a whiff of this about Stauffenberg in Cruise’s film.’
‘What motivated the conspirators? Defeat.
The most serious efforts by members of the German officer corps to dispose of Hitler occur following the catastrophic defeats of the German Army in North Africa and, especially, after the battle of Stalingrad in February 1943.
They didn’t occur after Hitler’s victories in the early years of the war (when they were quite willing to play ball with him), which set the stage for the Holocaust, the destruction of major European cities and the deaths of tens of millions, particularly on the Eastern Front.’
Espacio Público: ‘‘Valkyrie’: Cruise as “Nazi Light”
Cfr. también mi entrada del viernes, día 11 de diciembre 2009 (basada en una ponencia del grupo político-histórico nevergoinghome):
http://espaciopublico.blogsport.eu/2009/12/11/%e2%80%98valkyrie%e2%80%99-cruise-as-%e2%80%9cnazi-light%e2%80%9d/
The following text is my summary of a lecture, delivered by the group nevergoinghome, which is working on German history and politics. The entire lecture (in German) you can read here: Vortrag: Stauffenberg – Nationaler Widerstand.
The last film of Tom Cruise, before starting with the works for ‘Knight & Day’ (‘Wichtia’) was ‘Valkyrie’. That film was about the failed Anti-Hitler-coup of German officers on July 20, 1944. By a great part of the German audience and critics that movie was not very enthusiastically welcomed. They* missed Colonel Stauffenberg, one of the leading conspirators, emphatically enough portrayed as moral figure, who converted from a Nazi- to an Anti-Nazi-attitude. Instead Stauffenberg is portrayed as pragmatic German nationalist, for whom killing Hitler was a question of reasons of State.
Despite the German critics that portray is quite true. But that does not mean that ‘Valkyrie’ is critically regarding Stauffenberg’s and the other conspirator’s “Soft-Nazi-attitude”. Stauffenberg is the hero of the movie, to identify with: Stauffenberg, who – in accordance with his July, 20 comrades – intended to continue World War II (together with the western allies, against the Soviet Union); who was anti-Semitic as other conspirators as well (though they maybe had stopped the mass murder) and who was not a democrat (even not a bourgeois one, e.g.: one, who is in favour of a restricted concept of representative – parliamentarian or presidential – democracy).
II Jornadas de Urbanismo Alternativo (texto y programa como tríptico; Archivo de pdf)
(Photographer: Andy Clark; cfr.: Volker Eick / Jens Sambale / Eric Töpfer [ed.], Kontrollierte Urbanität.
Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik, transcript: Bielefeld, 2007)
Just when in Cádiz the movie Knight & Day (Wichita) was produced, the German social scientist Volker Eick talked at the University of Vancouver (Canada) about German experiences with another “mega-event”, the football World Cup in Germany in 2006. In this time, parts of German towns were temporarily leased to FIFA’s television partner Infront Sports. In these areas no other business and advertisements were allowed than that of multinational companies sponsoring the World Cup.
During a period of one week, we experienced in Cádiz something similar: The town hall leased the centre town of the city to the multinational movie company 20th Century Fox. In these days, only those business activities were allowed in this area, which were certified by 20th Century Fox. Fox decided the cafés’ and shops’ opening and closing hours.
In Vancouver, Eick analysed such developments as part of the neo-liberal restructuring of our societies. Neo-liberalisation goes hand in hand with privatization, i.e. the sell off of the public sector. Eick’s paper ‘From the Estadio Nacional to the Fan Mile. The FIFA World Cup in Germany 2006 as a neoliberal sport event’ will be published soon in one of leading academic journals of the field. (The first part of title refers on the football arena in Santiago de Chile, which after the coup in 1973 was used as a torture prison. Beginning with that coup, neo-liberalism transformed from an ideology into a political practice.)
By the way: Volker Eick explains, quoting Margit Mayer (Prof. from the Freie Universität Berlin), that for cities the competition regarding mega-events is a zero-sum game. Especially regarding the football World Cup Eick states: ‘According to different sources, it is finally noteworthy that non of the host cities as public administrations gained any direct profit from the games, even though investments were high and some monies (some ridiculous 300,000 Euros per host city) were distributed by the FIFA to the host cities (Stadt Nuremberg, 2006; Bundesregierung, 2006: 19-23); in addition, even hotels, bars and restaurants reported less turnovers and profits compared to summer times with no sporting events (Stengel, 2006).’
We can learn from that: The sell off of the public is not an appropriate economic strategy for Cádiz.
I’m delighted, that I’m – thanks to the generosity of the author – allowed to republish another paper of Volker Eick, which appeared 2006 in the journal Trialog. Eick analysed there the interaction between the privatisation of the public space and the privatisation of police functions, or more precisely: the ‘pluralization of policing’. Eick writes: ‘[…] the privatization of the city and the urban society is followed by privatization of security and at the same time by a re-definition and restructuring of state and local police and their duties.’
That’s is another thing which we experienced the last days in Cádiz: The security staff of 20th Century Fox and the local police worked hand in hand, in order to protect 20th Century Fox’s business interests against the people of Cádiz and their freedom of movement.
Volker Eick
»Problematic Territories…«
Controlling Urban Spaces – New Actors in New Places
in: Trialog Iss. 89 2/2006, p. 4 – 8.
La página de web del Ayuntamiento:
El resultado de mi primer intento de enviar un correo electrónico a Bruno García León:
El resultado de mi segundo intento de enviar un correo electrónico a Bruno García León:
PS.:
En el segundo caso envié mi correo también al Primer Teniente de alcalde. Este no causaba ninguno mensaje de error. Aunque se no ha contestada tampoco.
La protesta nació de un grupo de blogueros, unidos a través de Facebook y otras redes, con el reclamo de una abreviatura en inglés: No B. Day, Día del No a Berlusconi. Ayer bajó de Internet a las calles y reunió a decenas de miles de personas, la mayoría jóvenes, en 45 ciudades del mundo. En Roma, una marea de gente pidió la dimisión del primer ministro y le animó a dejarse procesar por los jueces. Según los organizadores, eran más de un millón; la policía rebajó la cifra a 80.000. Otros miles de italianos salieron a la calle en Berlín, Sidney, Londres, Barcelona, Ámsterdam, Dublín, París, Viena, San Francisco, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Madrid…
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