Hellstorm

One of the most important historical documentaries to see. With this documentary, the scape-goated victims finally get their stories told. Hard to watch, yes. Fact-based, unlike a lot of what was taught in history class or what they show in hollyweird. Those innocent men, women, and children did not deserve such barbaric and atrocious deaths, especially when their people did not commit genocide themselves.

+ May They Rest in Peace +

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.

This documentary brings the horrors of war committed by the allied powers to light and infuriates those who no little about WW2. As you will see from the load of one star reviews it received calling it anti-Semitic it brings forth some uncomfortable facts. In reality this is no different from any other great documentary as it allows the facts to take the spotlight while also offering some opinion. As far as the critics who fall back to crying anti-Semitism I would like to remind you that facts cannot be anti-Semitic.

To end this review I would like to remind you that the victors write the history books and tend to leave uncomfortable facts out of them.

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.

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.