<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Jul 17 2007, 07:45 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Jul 17 2007, 07:45 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Had to watch many European films about WWII and nazis in high school (history class). Scarred for life.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->West propaganda.
Nazi were no different than current Chini or any western power.[right][snapback]71270[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->It wasn't propaganda Mudy. The doco-films were based on factual records. (Some Nazi scientists' horrible experiments being well-known - well, what part of these that they could rediscover anyway.) The other films were based on biographies of Jewish prisoners who escaped and, of course, of one who just didn't make it but left behind her diary.
However, in history class they were not comparing nazism's situation to communist China or the present west. This is to be expected. One can write the individual histories of islamic jihadism or christian history/terrorism (like the Inquisition) or of nazism or of Russia's communism without needing to compare any of them to communist china or present western imperialism or TSP's mass genocide of Bangladeshis or the Rwandan genocide. The cases can be dealt with separately.
Atrocities committed by all of these can at times come close to or be equally horrible to or exceed each other, but to show documentaries about the one is not to diminish the terror and genocide that the others caused.
The chapters they dealt with in class was on WWII. When discussing that, Maoist China or Nato-intervention in early 1990s Yugoslavia is not really relevant. Next to that, to their situation, WWII was more geographically significant as it related directly to <i>their</i> history; whereas the crisis in Yugoslavia was just going on (not yet 'history') and China's situation - China being a distant land - wasn't really relevant to them (at that time).
Nazi were no different than current Chini or any western power.[right][snapback]71270[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->It wasn't propaganda Mudy. The doco-films were based on factual records. (Some Nazi scientists' horrible experiments being well-known - well, what part of these that they could rediscover anyway.) The other films were based on biographies of Jewish prisoners who escaped and, of course, of one who just didn't make it but left behind her diary.
However, in history class they were not comparing nazism's situation to communist China or the present west. This is to be expected. One can write the individual histories of islamic jihadism or christian history/terrorism (like the Inquisition) or of nazism or of Russia's communism without needing to compare any of them to communist china or present western imperialism or TSP's mass genocide of Bangladeshis or the Rwandan genocide. The cases can be dealt with separately.
Atrocities committed by all of these can at times come close to or be equally horrible to or exceed each other, but to show documentaries about the one is not to diminish the terror and genocide that the others caused.
The chapters they dealt with in class was on WWII. When discussing that, Maoist China or Nato-intervention in early 1990s Yugoslavia is not really relevant. Next to that, to their situation, WWII was more geographically significant as it related directly to <i>their</i> history; whereas the crisis in Yugoslavia was just going on (not yet 'history') and China's situation - China being a distant land - wasn't really relevant to them (at that time).