Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?

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Movie
Original title Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?
Country of production United States
original language English , German
Publishing year 2018
length 109 minutes
Rod
Director Dinesh D'Souza , Bruce Schooley
script Dinesh D'Souza, Bruce Schooley
production Gerald R. Molen
music Dennis McCarthy
camera Benjamin Huddleston
cut Dinesh D'Souza
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Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? is a 2018 American political documentary about incumbent President of the United States Donald Trump and the US Democratic Party .

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The film begins with the aerial warfare during the Battle of Berlin in 1945. Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva commit suicide in the Führerbunker and their corpses are burned in the courtyard of the New Reich Chancellery .

The film then switches to the narrator's first-person perspective. As a little boy in his home town of Mumbai , Dinesh D'Souza wonders why nations like the Roman Empire , the German Empire or the Soviet Union died.

The film is now moving to the United States today. The media coverage of the 2016 presidential election is presented using excerpts . Excerpts from the US media landscape after the elections show the disbelief over the election winner Donald Trump and the attempts to impeach him through impeachment proceedings in the course of the special investigation into influencing the election campaign by the Russian government or the allegations of sexual assault or the 25th amendment to the constitution Remove the United States from office. The narrator draws a parallel with the first Republican President Abraham Lincoln .

Since Donald Trump is confronted with the accusation that he is a fascist , the narrator asks about the real fascists and racists. Fascism is usually understood as a right-wing and authority-oriented ideology. Donald Trump is attributed to this direction because he is a nationalist . The narrator sums up that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , Nelson Mandela , Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln were nationalists and that authoritarianism and nationalism do not mean fascism.

In an interview with Robert Paxton , a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University , New York , parallels are drawn between the Antifa with the Italian black shirts and the storm department known as "brown shirts" . Fascists did not want a free economy, but strived for a central authority. Film material and re-enactment scenes show the March on Rome in 1922. In response to the crisis of Marxism, Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile developed fascism as a fusion of nationalism and socialism and thereby animated socialists in the United States. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was inspired by Mussolini and fascism and did during the Great Depression by using the National Recovery Administration , one end of the free market propagated. After Mussolini was identified as a man of the left, the narrator asks about Hitler's political classification.

The film moves to Munich - Schwabing , where Hitler and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin are said to have visited the same restaurant. Hitler had pushed through the name change from the German Workers 'Party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party , and the word “ Nazi ” was composed of “national” and “social”. The 25-point program of the NSDAP shows significant parallels to the program of the Democratic Party of the USA and could also have been written by Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders . Hitler was not only against capitalism, he was also a racist. Recreational scenes show the Hitler putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler during imprisonment in Landsberg , where he dictated " Mein Kampf " to his cellmate Rudolf Hess , and the arrest of Ernst Röhm . The inspiration for the persecution of other races was the expulsion of the Indians under US President Andrew Jackson .

The journalist Edwin Black points to the origins of eugenics in the USA , which Hitler used as a model. The narrator discusses the Nuremberg Laws with the German sociologist Stefan Kühl . The “one drop rule” adopted and enforced by representatives of the Democrats, according to which anyone who had even one black ancestor was classified as black, served as a model for the Nuremberg legislation, but was classified as too racist and therefore toned down.

Hitler was also against freedom of expression, freedom of religion and Christianity . The November pogroms of 1938 were justified with the confiscation of weapons in the hands of the Jewish population, which would have rendered them defenseless. Progressive American politicians had praised National Socialism and saw in it a model for the future.

Concentration camps , where a distinction must be made between labor camps and death camps, are represented as slave plantations. The basis for the death camps was the destruction of life unworthy of life . Kühl shows that there was a personal and technical transfer between this and the industrial killing that began after the start of the war . Josef Mengele is positioned as a representative of progressivism. After the war, he worked as an abortion doctor in South America and thus switched from one form of murder to another.

After the crimes in the concentration camps and the Nuremberg trials were discovered , the ideology was discredited. The Democrats in the USA saw themselves in a mess because of their substantive connection to Nazism and had come to the big lie of taking socialism out of National Socialism and shifting the latter from the left spectrum to the right camp. However, according to the narrator, fascists and Nazis were always on the political left.

The narrator discusses the origins of racism with the American history professor Allen C. Guelzo from Gettysburg College . Guelzo says that the founding fathers of the United States believed that slavery had come to an end and that action against slavery had already been taken. In the 19th century, however, slavery was seen as a progressive institution. The Democrats had praised it as a welfare institution, although it was also conceivable that white people could be enslaved. Democrats had sought to expand slavery to the northern states and introduced it to the incoming migrants with the help of a patronage system. Lincoln would have opposed this, who would have seen slavery theft of labor. The Democrats would have started the Civil War , which Lincoln won, then abolished slavery and advanced the integration of the black population.

The Democrats under US President Woodrow Wilson had sought a new system of slavery and found it with state segregation and racist terrorism. Wilson had the film " The Birth of a Nation " ( The Birth of a Nation ) in the White House and as such to the founding of the Ku Klux Klan contributed as an extension of the Democratic Party.

The film then deals with the Democrats' claim that they may have been the party of racism in the past, but that has changed. In the 1960s, for example, during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, the sides were reversed. The narrator explains that there was no statement from Nixon that revealed him to be a racist. He took action against militant opponents of the Vietnam War and led the War on Drugs . The song Okie from Muskogee also testifies to this . After his election, Nixon helped minorities. Overall, only one senator and one member of the House of Representatives of the southern states switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama attended the funeral of Senator and former Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd in 2010 . The migration from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party only took place under Ronald Reagan , when the South became less racist.

After this narrative was dismantled, the narrator said the Democrats were left with the far-right demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017 . Its organizer, Jason Kessler , was a supporter of Obama and was active in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In an interview, D'Souza lets Richard B. Spencer , the founder of the Alt-Right movement, speak. He does not call himself a neo-Nazi , but a supporter of Trump. The narrator accuses him of supporting the media narratives that link neo-Nazism with Trump through his actions and thus harming what he denies. Spencer positions himself as an opponent of the immigration of non-white people. He does not contradict Malcolm X's idea of separation . He does not recognize individual rights; the rights of an individual would rather derive from society. He is satisfied with the Democratic US Presidents Jackson and James K. Polk . Spencer does not position himself entirely against international socialism.

The narrator reports that the values ​​that Richard B. Spencer represents are not the values ​​of Donald Trump. Trump has improved conditions for the black population, stands for legal migration and free markets. Obama, on the other hand, pursued state-controlled capitalism, which the narrator calls the clinical definition of fascism. He also used the state within the state ( Deep State ) to suppress his opponents with the help of state authorities. As an example, D'Souza cites his own condemnation. This is institutionalized fascism. The DC circuit he sits with the political correctness same.

In an interview with James O'Keefe he explains that the ideology of the Antifa, which is against freedom of expression, free speech and individual rights, has a lot in common with communism, but also with fascism. Their paramilitary groups would be reminiscent of Mussolini and the "brown shirts". They would be financed by Tom Steyer and George Soros , who describes himself as an anti-fascist. When Hungary was occupied in 1944 , his father separated the family and passed 14-year-old George off as a Christian. From then on, he had inventoried Jewish property for the National Socialist occupiers, which is represented by recreated scenes. With excerpts from older interviews, it is shown that Sorros does not feel guilty and does not believe in God. The narrator states that the progressive Democrats are the real racists and fascists who want to kill America with its values. His own wife is from Venezuela , where a fascist regime is suppressing the citizens and she prays that this does not happen in America.

The narrator asks what the struggle against left tyranny could look like. As an example, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance movement are shown with re-enacted scenes.

Reagan knew how to win against fascism. His visit to Berlin in 1987 and his saying “ Tear down this wall! “Are shown in addition. An excerpt from an interview shows how Reagan says that fascism is total state control, whereas conservatives stand for less state control. The narrator portrays that Trump is the spiritual successor of Reagan. An excerpt from Donald Trump's speech in front of the Warsaw Uprising Memorial from 2017 is shown. The parties have not changed. Lincoln described the Democrats as thieves. Then as now, they stand for tyranny and slavery.

Once again, history professor Allen C. Guelzo has the floor, declaring that if Robert Edward Lee had been victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg , there would not have been an American republic that would have fought German militarism in World War I or Nazism in World War II .

A re-enacted scene shows the assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln . The narrator concludes that Trump can now complete Lincoln's mission in life.

Background / production

Director, screenwriter and storyteller Dinesh D'Souza with US President Ronald Reagan (1988)

Director and screenwriter Dinesh D'Souza is a conservative political commentator , writer, and filmmaker . Under Ronald Reagan, he held an advisory position in the administration . He is a self-declared opponent of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In 2012 his first political documentary " 2016: Obama's America " was released. In 2014, his second film, America: Imagine the World Without Her, was released . Together with Bruce Schooley, Dinesh D'Souza wrote the documentary " Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party ", which appeared in the year of the 2016 presidential election , which dealt with the history of the Democratic Party.

In 2014, D'Souza was sentenced to five years probation, the first eight months of which he spent in open prison in a penal institution, and a monetary and labor condition for violating legal provisions on campaign finance in the 2012 Senate election in the United States . Alan M. Dershowitz , a law professor at Harvard University , charged selective prosecution based on D'Souza's political views. Four Republican Party senators criticized his silencing in a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey . In May 2018, Donald Trump pardoned D'Souza because he was "treated very unfairly by the government". D'Souza said Donald Trump personally told him he was "a great voice for freedom".

The film Death of a Nation was based on the non-fiction books The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left (2017) and Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party (2018) Dinesh D'Souzas.

According to D'Souza, the basic sources used were Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by lawyer James Q. Whitman from 2017 (published in German 2018 under the title “Hitler's American Model: Like the USA the racial laws of the National Socialists inspired ”) and Racism: A Short History by historian George M. Fredrickson from 2002 (published in German in 2004 under the title“ Rassismus: Ein historischer Abriß ”).

Movie poster for The Birth of a Nation

The “state within the state” ( Deep State ), which supposedly works against the president, is a narrative that accompanies Donald Trump's entire presidency, for example on the conservative Breitbart News Network and Fox News Channel , but also among politicians. So warned Steve King , Member of the House of Representatives and supporters of Viktor Orbán and Geert Wilders , "in front of a deep state , which is led by Barack Obama" and applies it to stop. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich also complained about such a hostile system. Donald Trump himself described the "state within the state" on Twitter as his enemy. The “state within the state” is made responsible, among other things, for the special investigation into influencing the 2016 election campaign and the impeachment investigation in 2019 . In the latter context, the “state within the state” is part of the government's official language regime .

The production cost of the film amounted to six million US dollars .

The title refers to the film The Birth of a Nation ( The Birth of a Nation ) by David Wark Griffith of 1915, as D'Souza in an interview with Rush Limbaugh stated. The recreated scene in which US President Woodrow Wilson screened the film in the White House was already part of Hillary's America . According to Ekkehard Knörer, the birth of a nation is “an infamous, racist and yet film-historically significant work”. The film "turns the facts into an openly racist" way. Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert compared the film with Leni Riefenstahl's " Triumph of the Will ".

publication

Guest of honor at the premiere: Donald Trump Jr., son of the US President

The world premiere took place on July 30th in Los Angeles . The separate US premiere took place on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC . D'Souza and Donald Trump Jr. attended the performance as guests of honor . This continued the narration of the film:

"You see the Nazi platform from the early 1930s ... and you look at it compared to the DNC platform of today, you're saying, 'Man, those things are awfully similar' to a point where it's actually scary."

“You see the Nazi base program from the early 1930s ... and when you look at it compared to the DNC base program today, you say, 'Man, these things are terribly similar' to the point where it's actually scary becomes."

- Donald Trump Jr.

Other spectators included Ben Carson , Minister for Housing and Urban Development in the Trump Cabinet , former Sheriff David A. Clarke , Donald Trump's former advisor Sebastian Gorka , internet activist Jack Posobiec and journalist Lee Stranahan . Before joining the Breitbart News Network as a consultant, Gorka worked for Steve Bannon and is affiliated with the Alt-Right movement. The active also in the Alt-Right movement Posobiec participated during the presidential election campaign in 2016 on the distribution of Pizza Gates , a conspiracy theory , according to which in a pizzeria , a Washington, DC child pornography ring involving Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga was active . Posobiec was retweeted on Twitter by Donald Trump . The former erotic photographer Stranahan worked for the Breitbart News Network and switched to the Russian news medium Sputnik in 2017 .

The film opened in 1032 US cinemas on August 3 . It was the first documentary in ten years to be shown in more than 1,000 cinemas. He achieved a box office earnings of 5,885,881 US dollars, less than the previous films D'Souza.

Republican Party representatives showed the film at dozen of public viewing events.

The film was released as a digital copy on October 16, 2018 and on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 30 .

The Texan Super PAC Texas Patriots PAC sent thousands of DVDs to undecided voters in the run-up to the 2018 mid-term election in the United States . D'Souza said he was watching with interest to see if the film had any impact on swing voters. He is planning his next film for the 2020 presidential election campaign .

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In the audience rating by CinemaScore , the film achieved an “A” on a scale from “A +” to “F”. In a survey by PostTrak , the visitors gave four out of five possible stars. The audience rating at Rotten Tomatoes certifies that it is around 90% in favor.

The media, on the other hand, classify the film as propaganda and revisionist . It was featured among the worst films of 2018 by various publications. The film was nominated four times for the negative award Golden Raspberry 2019 and won the award in two categories.

Bill Goodykoontz saw the film's title alluding to The Birth of a Nation , but asked if they really wanted to target such a racist film.

John Broich , a historian at Case Western Reserve University , clearly contradicted the links between fascism and left-wing radicalism in the film. Owen Gleiberman accused D'Souza of fake historical news . It is irrelevant to ask whether the director (his own garbage garbage ) think, because he was playing like his idol Donald Trump aware of the truth. He saw a clear intention of the filmmaker:

"D'Souza's bogus conflation of liberalism and Nazism is really his way of denying the white-supremacist appeal that runs right down the middle of the Trump presidency."

"D'Souza's false equation of liberalism and Nazism is actually his way of denying the appeal of the white supremacy of the Trump presidency."

- Owen Gleiberman

D'Souza described the film's poor performance with critics as "intellectual dishonesty". The critics would try to keep the average moviegoer away from the film because they were afraid the film would convince them.

The historian Robert Paxton, who is interviewed in the film, stated that he was invited under a false project proposal. The interview took place under false pretenses and he had warned his fellow historians James Q. Whitman and Timothy Snyder against collaborating with D'Souza. Edwin Black, who was also interviewed in the film, said, however, that his expertise was correctly represented in the film.

Awards

Golden raspberry 2019

  • Golden Raspberry in the Worst Actor category for Donald Trump (along with his appearance in Fahrenheit 11/9 )
  • Golden Raspberry in the Worst Screen Couple category for Donald Trump and his everlasting insignificance (along with his appearance in Fahrenheit 11/9)
  • Nomination for Worst Remake or Sequel (as a remake of Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party )
  • Nominated for Worst Screenplay for Dinesh D'Souza and Bruce Schooley

literature

  • Dinesh D'Souza : The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2017, ISBN 978-1-62157-348-7 .
  • Dinesh D'Souza: Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party . All Points Books, New York, NY 2018, ISBN 978-1-250-16377-6 .
  • George M. Fredrickson : Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass 2008, ISBN 978-0-674-02774-9 .
  • George M. Fredrickson: Racism: An Historical Outline . Hamburger Ed., Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-930908-98-1 (American English: Racism: A Short History . Princeton 2002. Translated by Horst Brühmann / Ilse Utz).
  • George M. Fredrickson: White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York / Toronto / Melbourne 1981, ISBN 978-0-19-503042-6 .
  • Michael Schwartz : Socialist eugenics: Eugenic social technologies in debates and politics of the German social democracy 1890-1933 (=  research institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, series of political and social history . Volume 42 ). Dietz, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-8012-4066-5 .
  • James Q. Whitman : Hitler's American Role Model: How the United States Inspired National Socialist Racial Laws . CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72140-3 (American English: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law . Princeton 2017. Translated by Andreas Wirthensohn).

Web links

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