Inglourious Basterds: A German Fantasy, Not a ‘Jewish’ One
This article is itself a perfect example of the kind of cultural-political mendacity it claims to decry. From the insinuation that any monies from the (current) German government are akin to a payoff from Dr. Goebbels himself, to the grossly disingenuous implication that the “average viewer” *ever* tends to differentiate between W-SS and regular Heer/Wehrmacht soldiers (they don’t, nor do directors), to the description of the Morgenthau Plan as “restricting German industry following occupation” (like saying the Holocaust was a bureaucratic maneuver designed to “reorganize Jewish demography in Europe”) to the implication that the movie is somehow unfair because the German cultural references are well thought-out and often at the expense of other nationalities (as if 99% of American films don’t do that as a matter of course).
His review makes it sound like an overblown version of the scene in “Saving Private Ryan” where the Jewish soldier (I forget his name) holds up his necklace with a Star of David in the faces of German POWs–was that too a German fantasy?
