Hellstorm

I personally never really had much of an interest in WWII as I already had a general idea of what happened, and why it happened though many of the Hollywood films I had watched in the past. Or at least that's what I thought. This documentary, however, literally sent shivers down my spine as it truly put the old saying "there are 2 sides to every story" into perspective. The documentary was very well made, and the facts were well presented.

Since Hitler - The Greatest Story Never Told filled in some major gaps in the dominant narrative of WW2 as a battle of good of evil in which strangely enough the winners, the good guys, are such champions of liberty and human rights as Stalin or Mao, which has to make one wonder about the moral of that tale, this is now a historical overview of the events during the allied invasions and the immediate post-war period. It's very hard to watch, even if one still sees the Nazi Germans as cartoonish characters bent on world domination. Nothing justifies mass raping, killing and pillaging, yet is is exactly the kind of justice the victors dispensed on traumatised civilian population. German POWs fared even worse, ending up in concentration camps in Poland and as slaves in Siberian gulags.

The world is not monochromatic, that much should be clear and it seems to be a moral imperative for every thinking person to learn the alternative views of history and then do his homework to see what historically checks or does not, but we should definitely not be taking Soviet post WW2 propaganda at face value.

I have to say first, I come from Vietnam and back to the war, do you think the American did not rape woman or kill children? or American again are the good guys while Vietnamese communistic people were the bad one? Think about it. No side are good or bad at all in some areas. The movie was worth to spending time to watch. If you really are an open-minded person, it is interested and stunned as well. Otherwise, I swear you would vote the film 1 star as many others did. Two-side story always better than one-side. At least, I know another story beneath the victory-story demonstrated by the Allies. It is hard to see, of course, but the should be some reason why the German have to go to the war, right?

It was nice to feel honourable and believe that we walked the moral high ground regarding WWII. When I think of all the comedy shows such as "Alo Alo" and "Fawlty Towers" who openly mocked the Germans as well as the steady stream of Hollywood films demonising the German people, I am aghast at the power of the media, able to actually control public opinion through the emotions of laughter, hatred and fear. After much research of which this film was part, I feel utterly ashamed of what was done to the German and the Axis peoples in my name. It is clear that we have all been duped by powerful forces that continue to run all media and governments from the shadows. Anyone saying otherwise is either a fool or has a dog in the fight. No, not in my name. Churchill et al were war criminals, in my opinion. The various aspects raised by this documentary I pursued through many books and footage available and I can only come to one conclusion; the Germans were innocent victims of the international clique of bankers.

Such a welcome breath of fresh air to watch a different point of view on the war other than the filtered propaganda of the west and film makers of the USA. I found it to be fair and non bias, just from a different perspective, the film does not allocate blame, just some food for thought and the truth from the other side. i think that people are far to quick to brush aside any thought process and simply accept things the way that they have been presented over time.. i too thought that movies like Schindlers list were based on truth before doing a bit of research..

i found difficulty sourcing it on Youtube but finally was able to stream it off Ancreport, another good documentary in the same line is The Greatest Story never Told and David Cole on Aushwitz. both are done very well for the obvious limit in budget