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Editor says, what if Quentin Tarantino's movie was banned in Germany? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 2009, on this day the German board of censors banned the screening of Quentin Tarantino's Jewish revenge movie "Once upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied Europe".
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Once upon a TimeThe censor's decision was just one of a series of obstructive measures taken by German authorities who sought to prevent the making of the movie. In fact, they nearly succeeded.
During casting, Tarantino had been prevented from hiring German actors.
"What a tremendously hostile world that a rat must endure. Yet not only does he survive, he thrives. Because our little foe has an instinct for survival and preservation second to none... And that Monsieur is what a Jew shares with a rat".As a result, the film featured Daniel Cesar Martin Bruhl Gonzalez Domingo, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender, respectively a Spanish-born German, an Austrian and an Anglo-Irish born in Heidleberg.
Because a decade after the Fall of the Third Reich, the true extent of the Jewish Holocaust is still a matter of bitter controversy in Germany.
Entry posted by Todayinah Editor
© "Inglorious Basterds", Quentin Tarantino (2009).Story Tags
Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Movies Source: Wikipedia Labels: Quentin Tarantino, Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, Inglorious Basterds, A Band Apart. Editor says, Universal Pictures's German publicity site was censored as the display of Nazi iconography is illegal in Germany. The title has the German Swastika removed and the Stahlhelm helmet has a bullet hole instead of the Nazi symbol. The download section of the German site was also revised to exclude wallpaper downloads that feature the Swastika openly.
~ If the Reich had only fallen in 1999 or thenabouts, evidence of the Holocaust would be difficult to find.
~ Kind of like in Fatherland...
~ TL needs to be fleshed out. How did it fall? How big was it? The game the Nazis played from Barbarossa onwards was rule or ruin. Kind of hard to see a detente. So the POD has to be earlier which gets to how much earlier and which POD.
~ A flippant answer to Scott's question would be the PODs explored by Harry Turtledove and Robert Harris (see Davids point above) however, I did note that Heinrich Himmler was not present at the premiere, so perhaps the war doesnt end, Himmler seizes the leadership. Obviously this would assume no Barbarossa as Scott says, which is tricky since Nations Pride shows fighting in Italy i.e. after the Invasion of Sicily. Consequently, the POD I have in mind is Nations Pride takes place during the Fall of France, and the movie is made before the summer of 1941.
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