Hollyweird

I have noticed a trend in our movies and television shows. It is a rewriting of history and as they do it, they expect those of us who have lived through it to believe their version. Steven Spielburg seems to be very into this genre of film. His first effort at this was Shindler's List, a movie about a Nazi, who heroically saves the slave labor he is using. Shindler is a fascist capitalist, and through the movie, we are led to believe that at a great risk to himself, he protected the Jews who were given to him to work at his factory. For this, he is redefined as a hero. But, let me see if I understand this correctly, he saved Jews who would have been put to death, and he would have been given other Jews to work as slaves in his factory. So, what happened to the other Jews who were no longer needed to replace his Jews? Were they just liquidated? So, he didn't want to continually retrained slave labor, for that we should be thankful? For that he should be redefined by us as some sort of hero. Recently, a movie was made about the attempt on Hitler's life, another self serving piece of drek. About a year before WWII ended some of the men in Hitler's inner circle placed a bomb under a meeting table, he was not killed, and several dozen were put to death because of their part in the conspiracy. We are told that these men, were heros, and their attempt was an instance of supreme bravery. Their part in the atrocities of the Third Reich, should be somehow mitigated because of their part in this conspiracy. The truth is these men were Hitler's inner circle, they had been for about ten years. As long as he was winning the war, they might have grumbled, but they never spoke up or questioned his leadership. By the time they were ready to act, how the war would end, was a foregone conclusion, their action was to put it mildly perfunctory. If they had succeeded, they would have tried to negotiate a peace, perhaps shortening the war. But the real question, is was this the act of heros? Or what seems a whole lot more likely, the action of rats trying to desert a sinking ship. Why is Hollywood rewriting the history? Mr. Spielburg produced a movie called Munich, which was about the murder of Israeli Athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. The story shows the horrific events, and then shows these Palestinians being hunted down by Israeli police, who appear as gestapo like characters, while the Palestinians are humanized throughout the movie. It is almost as if he is saying the terrorists became people, and the people seeking some sort of retribution for the crime, became terrorists. Well, my mind does not work like that, and I resent this blatant attempt to rewrite history so criminals somehow get transformed into heros. Nazis who used slave labor, were not heroes because they did not want to keep retraining their workers. Nazis in Hitler's inner circle were not heros because they got caught trying to murder him. And Palestinians do not become innocent victims after they murder unarmed Jewish Athletes. One has to wonder what the motivation is to write and film these sorts of stories. There were real heros during WWII, and there are stories to be told. When Eisenhower liberated one of the concentration camps, he had his photographers take pictures because he said that if they didn't take the photos, someday, someone would try to rewrite the history books, and say it never happened. Eisenhower was a hero. He documented the story. Spielburg is trying to rewrite the history, with his own documentation, however it is Hollywood, it is not real, and he ought to be asked why.