Hitler is back, released in Germany in October 2015.
"Hitler is Back" is a more accurate reference to the background of Hitler's rise to power than "The Wave"—the collapse of social order. Today, europe's biggest problem is the flood of refugees.
Text/Zhu Renfeng
If Hitler travels back in time to Germany in 2014, how will the ambitious man return to power?
The film "Hitler Is Back", based on the novel of the same name, pointed out a way for Hitler to "recover" - social media. After Hitler returned, he once again established a huge fan base in Germany by speaking about talk shows, playing Twitter, and autobiographies. The Germans seemed to have forgotten the pain of World War II and saluted him with a Nazi salute.
There is a joke in the name of George Orwell: "I wrote '1984' to warn the world, not the instruction manual!" "The same goes for this movie. Although like many satires, "Hitler Is Back" has the problem of forcibly arranging the plot and ignoring the logic of reality, it more accurately points out the background of Hitler's rise to power than "The Wave" - the collapse of social order.
When Hitler woke up at the site of the "Wolf's Den", it was already the 21st century.
"The worse the situation, the better for us."
"Here Comes Hitler" reminds viewers that the exclusion of refugees by some Germans is likely to be exploited by careerists, leading to the emergence of neo-Nazis – but this time not against Jews, but refugees. But it would be too far-fetched to describe the "refusal to admit refugees" as a motivator for the Nazi revival. President Roosevelt also did not accept Jewish refugees for a time, and isolated japanese in the United States during the Pacific War. Unless Hitler had hoped, the current refugee problem in Europe would deteriorate indefinitely, and governments would be powerless to stop it.
In Europe, Germany has received the most refugees, and the impact of refugees on the social order is also the greatest. Not long ago, on April 1, two Afghan refugees entered a swimming pool in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and raped a 14-year-old boy. Similar attacks on swimming spots have occurred several times, according to the Guardian, and an Iraqi refugee in Austria is awaiting trial for sexually assaulting a boy in the swimming pool locker room.
After accepting refugees, Germany seems to be unable to control these hormonal outbreaks of young and middle-aged refugees, and similar things have happened one after another, and this year there were even large-scale sexual assault incidents in Cologne, Germany, which crossed the Chinese New Year's Eve, and received more than 500 sexual assault reports in the following 20 days.
According to the British Guardian, two refugees raped a 14-year-old boy in Germany. In 2015, Germany hosted around 1.1 million refugees.
It was at this time that Hitler in the film returned to Germany. When Hitler came to power in 1933 and experienced World War I and the Great Depression, faith in capitalism collapsed, as Peter Drucker put it: "Everyone suddenly faces permanent unemployment and the threat of being thrown into industrial waste heaps in their prime." At this point, Hitler stepped forward and promised them that peasants would earn more from the sale of grain, that workers would be able to buy cheaper bread, and that bakeries would earn higher incomes.
These promises contradicted each other, and it was known that high-priced grain could not grind low-priced bread, but the Germans became Hitler's followers. Peter Drucker foreshadowed this result a few weeks before Hitler came to power in 1933: "Since freedom does nothing to drive out demons, freedom becomes a secondary question." ”
So it's best to do Kristallnacht a few more times. In the film, hitler talks about the current refugee problem when he recruits the politician Karl Richter, and he nakedly states: "The worse the situation, the better for us." ”
In Kristallnacht in 1938, the windows of Jewish shops were smashed by anti-Semites. The "demonstration" appeared to have been spontaneous, but in fact it was instigated by the Nazi government.
New media is a good baby
Hitler's first public appearance in the film was on a talk show, and the natural orator quickly became a hot star, and German audiences laughed at his sharp commentary on current affairs. Murdoch was ridiculed by him as an "embarrassing big mother" and "a face with a willow-like stretch", and the unconventional SPD was even more bloodied by his scolding – Hitler was eager to restore it to the "orders of the world, dare not obey" of the National Socialist Party.
Hitler lashed out on television for the garbage of the 21st century, where people anesthetized themselves in light-hearted entertainment and could not see the "abyss" of the times — youth poverty, old age unemployment, the lowest birth rate in history, and only boring cooking shows. This high theory is the same as Neil Potsman's criticism of American television "entertainment to death".
Hitler was on talk shows, criticizing today's TV shows for paralyzing people's hearts.
"Hitler is Back" has a lot of documentary footage, and the actors put on Hitler's military uniforms and really go out into the street to talk to people. One of the interviews involved totobias Peterka, the chairman of the present-day Alternative for Germany (a party founded in February 2013 and on the right side) in Bayreud, a young man who spoke solemnly to Hitler about federal finance and education policy, who was drowsy and purring, and finally fell asleep on his shoulder.
Hitler knew that the audience was bound to enjoy the banter, and even saw it as sincere and cute. But this is not exactly a pretense, leaders like Hitler are necessarily anti-political, and political problems under normal order are boring tricks in their eyes, and they are only interested in violence.
"When you have a rat in your house, you don't make fun of it as a clown, but call it a rat wrack", comparing refugees to street rats to summon the "SS", Hitler wrapped his racist ideas on television with humorous eloquence, while the audience laughed and leaned forward. When Hitler traveled around Germany, 21st-century Germans listened to him talk about ethnic cleansing, some nodded their heads in agreement that refugees were the bane, and some refuted, but many more just laughed, just as the Germans laughed at them before Hitler came to power in 1933.
Hitler was being cheered and adored by the soldiers.
In a study of authoritarian governments' use of social networks, Seva Gunitsky, an assistant professor of political science at The University of Toronto, points out that in the age of the internet, there is no better propaganda tool than social media. Authoritarian governments use social media to mobilize not only youth but also agendas.
Under the marketing of television, social networks, and books, netizens simply loved this sleeping Hitler, the self-media on YouTube were talking about him, the Internet was full of Hitler's gifs and animations, and Hitler's peripherals began to appear on the market. Hitler became the hottest Internet celebrity and the biggest IP in Germany, and perhaps there were many young people who went to his Facebook every day to wash the pages, one mouth and one "husband".
Hitler became an Internet celebrity, and youtube's self-media put Hitler's avatar on the rainbow cat.
Everyone has a Hitler in their heart?
Despite becoming an Internet celebrity, Hitler still had to use tough tactics if he wanted to return to power. Contrary to popular parlance, Hitler was not elected to power, and in the 1932 German election, Hitler received only 35% of the vote, losing to Hindenburg. Under the coercion of the right-wing forces, President Hindenburg designated Hitler as Chancellor. Hitler then forcibly passed the Authorization Act, purged political opponents from all sides, and then held a fake referendum, this time, 84.6% of the people voted for him. From beginning to end, this is a betrayal of democracy.
By the end of the film, Hitler has trained a small squad of private security guards who salute Anderson as they did in the last century. Hitler drove through the streets in an open-top car, and the Germans along the way stopped to look at him, some gave him a middle finger, someone greeted him with a smile, but no one stopped him from moving forward with practical actions. The only journalist who tried to stop him, the one who brought Hitler on television, was put in a mental hospital.
Hitler, the TV director who won hitler in one hand, sat in Goebbels's position at the end of the film.
This is the scariest part, but also the biggest bug in the film. Both it and The Wave view the post-war 70 years of democratic development as nothing, hitler's rise in the 21st century, during which the government and civil society did not have any counter-production, nor did investigative journalists expose Hitler's origins and conspiracies. This is not possible in this era when journalists from all over the world band together for investigative journalism.
"Everybody has a Hitler in their heart," and "Hitler Is Back" attempts to convey this political science chicken soup, which is nothing more than what the political philosopher Hannah Arendt called "banal evil," diluting the totalitarian "evil" into every ordinary person.
In the film, they helped Hitler make a "21st Century Chronicle," and the reporter tried to stop Hitler, and Hitler said to him, "You can't get rid of me, I'm a part of you, from all of you." ”
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