After Mein Kampf (1961) User Reviews

Incredibly biased.

[grubendagger · 3/10 · 9 August 2006]

The movie opens with the claim that it is based on facts, which it is, but so overly-simplified and biased that it gets ridiculous after a few minutes. The movie is littered with images of Hitler's face turning into a skull, and Nazi-swastikas turning the wrong way.

The way the movie is presented gives it an amateurish feel. Judging by the way the narrator is speaking, you are led to think that the script is without periods or commas.

Just after a few minutes you are led to the idea that Germany is the great Satan. You are shown how the Germans in WWI were the sole inventors and users of flamethrowers, bombing raids, and poison gas.

As the film progress it just gets sillier.

This movie is a great description of how the sentiment towards Germany was in the years after the war. The movie is from 1961, so many families still had a grandparent who had fought in the first war and a parent who had fought in the second.

If you are looking for a documentary that can give you unbiased and true information about Hitler's rise to power, this movie is certainly not a place to look.

Because this movie is truly not about Hitler. It's about how 'evil' all of Germany is.

"Too soon?"

[TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews · 1/10 · 22 July 2009]

I guess fifteen or so years wasn't long enough to look objectively at history. If this would just own up to being a biased look at the man, a swift kick to the face of him, as I'm certain that quite a few at the time - and today - wanted to deliver, and with good reason... but no, it had to start with a disclaimer that everything was either true or based upon facts. This is a documentary(that can't muster up much objectivity at all), and it consists of footage from the events, reenactments and narration. While there isn't for a second a shadow of a doubt what they think about Hitler, with extremely obvious, manipulative editing choices, and outright *saying* what they view him as, this does also retell some of what happened, starting during World War I. As long as you realize this is pure propaganda, put together by people who presumably either worried that Nazism would gain more followers if they didn't use hyperbole, or who were ignorant of how the rise occurred(psst... the entire country felt humiliated, the political parties didn't satisfy people, and he took advantage of the, at the time, wide-spread hatred of Jews and ignorant look on genetics/race), hopefully it won't do a lot of damage. I recommend this only to those who won't take it particularly seriously. 1/10

Hitler's rise and fall

[djmikeyp · 7/10 · 15 March 2005]

this is a great documentary about the rise and fall of the worst man in the 20th century. It traces Adolf Hitler from his childhood in Vienna to his suicide in Germany. Most notably it goes into great detail into how he legally obtained dictatorship and the support of the German people. I found also interested how he sign treaties with England, Russia, France, and Czech., allowing him to take land from the Czech people. The images of the persecution of the Jews and polish is very graphic and moving. The sound, or lack there of, is just as powerful. i learned much from movie, and recommend it to anyone interested in Europe during the pre and post WWII. Moving, powerful, and informative. in the end, good documentary and recommended from me to you.