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Best movie about the rise and fall of the Nazi Party

Hitler's SS - Portrait in Evil
Starring: John Shea , Bill Nighy , Lucy Gutteridge , David Warner , and Warren Clarke
Director: Jim Goddard
Manufacturer: Westlake Ent. Group
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00023XHVY
Release Date: 1985-01-01

Description

This Gripping drama portarys the rise of the nazi Regime though the experiences of two ordinary brother who find themselves on opposite side during World War II. Helmut, the brilliant but opportunistic student, and Karl, an idealistic athlete, come of age at the downof Hitler's power in 1931 Berlin.

Customer Reviews:

buyer beware.......2007-01-24

I remember this as a good movie when i saw it years ago, but do NOT buy this dvd. It is defective and as others stated, half of the movie is gone. Plus that, the menu would not even work on most dvd players I tried it on.

Les we forget.......2007-01-03

Portrait in evil is the story bout ordinary people in extraordinary times.
Two brothers caught in the web of naziGermany from the time before ww2 through the war and concentrationcamp atrocities.
Like holocaust it depicts people that could have been you or me. It is history and as such it needs to be told again and again.
It is not a masterpiece but it is a welltold.
well worth the money.

bad business.......2006-12-31

what I could see of the movie was very good, problem is only half the movie is on the DVD I am very disappointed and recommend legal steps against the distributor since this is not a single incident!!!

only recieved a partial DVD.......2006-07-13

when i ordered this DVD the disk was defective. the movie started in the middle. i havent contacted anyone yet but be careful when ordering this dvd

Best movie about the rise and fall of the Nazi Party.......2006-05-11

The premise of the film revolves around two young, average everyday Germans, and not Adolf Hitler himself, which makes the film even better. So if you're tired of watching the documentaries and reading the biographies regarding Hitler's personal life, and want to get an understanding of how the Nazi fascist movement transformed history, watch this movie; absolutely, without a doubt.

Karl Hoffman is an out of work mechanic who is in the SA, under the leadership of Ernst Rohm, who represents the left-wing of the Nazi Party, wanting to implement more socialist elements in Germany when the Nazis wont power. Karl's brother, Helmut, is in the University to become an Asst. Professor, "helping people look for jobs that don't exist", referring to the 6 million unemployed Germans.

Helmut meets Reinhard Heydrich, assistant to Heinrich Himmler, chief of Hitler's SS (top Nazi security and intelligence apparatus). Heydrich picks up on Helmut's intelligence and quickly offers him a job with the SS, making more money than he would at the University. Despite Helmut's belief that the Nazi philosophy is "primitive rubbish", he joins.

Heydrich points out that Hitler will get in power utilizing the finance of the German capitalist class, such as the Krupps, Kirkdorffs, the Theisens, IG Farben, among others. Mentioning this is what is paramount; the aspect that Nazi Germany "historians" fail to mention. Hermann Goring, before the Nazi's were in power, was holding a ceremony, playing host to a number of Germany's capitalists, where he promised "100 years of labor peace". Since the end of World War 1, German workers started to become "self aware", and demanded better hours (they won the 8-hour day in 1919), better wages and other concessions. In the 1920s, Germany was actually called "Red" Germany because they were on the brink of becoming the world's first industrial socialist state. It was Hitler's job to stop this from happening. As Reinhard Heydrich said to Helmut, Hitler would get the rich "plenty of profits, obedient workers", and the COMPLETE abolition of trade unions, socialist or not.

Hitler, Goebbels, Goring and Himmler called themselves "National Socialists" in order to hoodwink the German people into thinking the Nazi Party had the interests of the German worker at heart. Some top Nazi members even took the word "socialist" in "National Socialist" serious. Among them, Ernst Rohm, leader of the SA, Gregor Strasser, former number two man in the Party, General von Schleicher, along with about 150 others. These men were running an "army" of the SA which was bigger than the German Army. The leadership was arrested by Hitler himself (and 200 others) on June 30th, 1934. This was the Night of the Long Knives.

Karl Hoffman is arrested because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time when the SA leadership was arrested, but due to his brother's inside connections with the SS, he has Heydrich get him out. In 1938, Helmut and Heydrich discuss the deceptive plan to take Poland. 150 SS officers dressed in Polish Army uniforms will "attack" a Germany radio, so Germany will be justified in annexing Poland. In June, 1942, Heydrich is assassinated by two Czech patriots trained by the British. In response, according to Gestapo records, 1,131 were killed. This was in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, on June 10th, 1942.

In conclusion with this review, I have seen probably every movie taking place in Hitler's Germany, and this is my favorite. It exposes the truth about Hitler's connections with the owners of production in Germany, as well as other international bankers in England and the United States, and other international companies that made the Nazi's what they were: the protectors of the status quo. Fascism is when capitalism has to be maintained through the barrel of a gun; through absolute dictatorship. It happened in Italy in the 20s, Germany and Spain in the 30s, El Salvador in the 70s, and can happen again. It is capitalism at its worse.

Anton Batey
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Average customer rating:

buyer beware
Les we forget
bad business
only recieved a partial DVD
Best movie about the rise and fall of the Nazi Party

Hitler's Ss: Portrait in Evil
Starring: John Shea , Bill Nighy , Lucy Gutteridge , David Warner , and Warren Clarke
Director: Jim Goddard
Manufacturer: Ideal
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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