“How Germany Forgot the Horrors of Communism,” produced by
Anthony L. Fisher. About 4 minutes. Original release date was
February 4, 2015 and original writeup is below.
Germany recently
celebrated 25 years of reunification with a beautiful art
installation retracing the path of the Berlin Wall and
educational
exhibits of its Cold War history. For many Germans, it was a
rare moment of reflection on the horrors perpetrated by the German
Democratic Republic (a.k.a. GDR, East Germany, DDR).
The phenomenon known as
Ostalgie, or
nostalgia for the East, along with favorable views of
socialism, have led to a curious whitewashing of the GDR’s legacy.
Particularly among young Germans, the GDR is seen as a quirk of
history, a strange but charming place with campy state-manufactured
products and a culture of nude beaches and enthusiastic
collectivism, rather than a monstrous police state which
imprisoned, murdered, tortured, and spied on its own people.
Reason TV visited Berlin and spoke with DDR Museum Scientific Director
Dr. Stefan
Wolle, Students for Liberty’s Frederik
Cyrus Roeder, Prometheus think tank founderClemens Schnieder, and Lichtgrenze artists
Mark and Christopher Bauder about why Germans are so skittish about
confronting the country’s dark communist legacy.
About 4 minutes.
Produced by Anthony L. Fisher.
Music: “Profound Groove On The Rise” by Jared C. Balogh
(http://www.alteredstateofmine.net)
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