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Because they lost, and it is free to criticize them. Also there were survivors. Stalin killed millions of their own people too and how many films you see about

Because they lost, and it is free to criticize them. Also there were survivors. Stalin killed millions of their own people too and how many films you see about it? Few films about China revolution too. It was not politically correct. Part of my family comes from a communist country. If the party came to acknowledge that you stored pictures or any other document or proof of "past errors" you will have lots of problems, so most people destroyed them. Delation was normal even between family members. When you kill them all, there is very few people that could write the History. Most of what we know of the native Americans genocide comes from the very few Americans that opposed that. But most Americans were certainly ok with killing the people there if they and their families could profit from it.

larrys 12y ago
"Stalin killed millions of their own people too and how many films you see about it? Few films about China revolution too. It was not politically correct." To oversimplify things a bit a large reason for the obsessions has to be the availability of a large trove of images (movies, pictures) describing the event. In a somewhat similar way people are obsessed with the Kennedy Assassination (and Kennedy and "The Kennedys" for that matter) no doubt driven in part by a large amount of images of a youthful Kennedy as well as obviously the zapruder film. Plus much of that unrolled on TV (the funeral I remember sitting in front of a TV watching as a youngster).
byoogle 12y ago
[Slightly OT] Amazon just put out a pilot of The Man in the High Castle, an alternate history about the Axis powers having won WWII based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGFRY8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGFRY8 (watch! since popularity and feedback determine which shows get picked up and I’m hoping this one does).
- freshhawk 12y ago
  For those who read the book, one of the changes might be very disappointing. They really seem to be taking out the best theme of the book, I would say the entire point of the book in favour of an alternate history that lets them have a resistance movement that gets to chant "USA USA USA". This Atlantic article explains it better than I: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/man-in-the-high-castle-when-a-nazi-ruled-world-isnt-so-dystopian/384708/ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/man...
  - detaro 12y ago
    Thanks for the info+link, I'm going to stay away then. I agree, this is so important in the book.
gnarbarian 12y ago
Another fascinating thing about them was their technology. Their subs, guns (stg44 first assault rifle) rockets (v2 first effective rocket) and airplanes (me262 first jet airplane) were considered decades ahead of allied technology. We invested in the bomb and the computer instead. Without vonn braun we never would have gotten to the moon.
- LyndsySimon 12y ago
  The Nazis invested in the bomb too, through alternate means.
mc32 12y ago
Another issue is the USSR were our 'allies' so we could not immediately condemn them and as you imply they were part of the victorious party so they could make their own history, so to speak and ignore their gulags and the starvation of millions of Ukrainians. another thing I think is important is the immediacy. Germans directly controlled our fate --if they won, we'd have been their subjugate, PRC, USSR, while enemies, were not the 'death of civilization' kind of threat, so who cared what murderous and genocidal things they did to themselves. Another thing is someone to have it a cause to propagate the story of the events. Those victims didn't have as great an agent to carry their story of genocide and suffering.

larrys 12y ago

"Stalin killed millions of their own people too and how many films you see about it? Few films about China revolution too. It was not politically correct." To oversimplify things a bit a large reason for the obsessions has to be the availability of a large trove of images (movies, pictures) describing the event. In a somewhat similar way people are obsessed with the Kennedy Assassination (and Kennedy and "The Kennedys" for that matter) no doubt driven in part by a large amount of images of a youthful Kennedy as well as obviously the zapruder film. Plus much of that unrolled on TV (the funeral I remember sitting in front of a TV watching as a youngster).

byoogle 12y ago

[Slightly OT] Amazon just put out a pilot of The Man in the High Castle, an alternate history about the Axis powers having won WWII based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGFRY8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGFRY8 (watch! since popularity and feedback determine which shows get picked up and I’m hoping this one does).

freshhawk 12y ago
For those who read the book, one of the changes might be very disappointing. They really seem to be taking out the best theme of the book, I would say the entire point of the book in favour of an alternate history that lets them have a resistance movement that gets to chant "USA USA USA". This Atlantic article explains it better than I: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/man-in-the-high-castle-when-a-nazi-ruled-world-isnt-so-dystopian/384708/ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/man...
- detaro 12y ago
  Thanks for the info+link, I'm going to stay away then. I agree, this is so important in the book.

gnarbarian 12y ago

Another fascinating thing about them was their technology. Their subs, guns (stg44 first assault rifle) rockets (v2 first effective rocket) and airplanes (me262 first jet airplane) were considered decades ahead of allied technology. We invested in the bomb and the computer instead. Without vonn braun we never would have gotten to the moon.

LyndsySimon 12y ago
The Nazis invested in the bomb too, through alternate means.

mc32 12y ago

Another issue is the USSR were our 'allies' so we could not immediately condemn them and as you imply they were part of the victorious party so they could make their own history, so to speak and ignore their gulags and the starvation of millions of Ukrainians. another thing I think is important is the immediacy. Germans directly controlled our fate --if they won, we'd have been their subjugate, PRC, USSR, while enemies, were not the 'death of civilization' kind of threat, so who cared what murderous and genocidal things they did to themselves. Another thing is someone to have it a cause to propagate the story of the events. Those victims didn't have as great an agent to carry their story of genocide and suffering.