Even given that this was made right at the end of the second world war when feelings were running high, this is still something of an unpleasant and aggressively jingoistic rant from Saul Ekins' writing of Knox Manning's commentary. With the Führer now ashes, this railroads a view that every German since Bismarck in the 1870s was a potential child rapist or murderer, racial and religious discrimination was embedded in the national psyche and that their society inherently consisted of a barely hidden desire for global conquest and ruthless occupation. The archive use is effective at illustratin…
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