Re: [Marxism] With apologies to Paul Verhoeven

[Georgios Papanicolaou <geopapanic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis,

>
> Verhoeven portrays the Nazi army as remaining in uniform and in arms
> under allied occupation, something that seemed far-fetched to me to
> begin with. But I slapped my head and say “Unbelievable” under my  
> breath
> after what happened next. Müntze is recognized by a Nazi officer and
> arrested. After a Nazi court martial finds him guilty of desertion, he
> is shot by a firing squad. While I was aware of ex-Nazi officers being
> used against the USSR after the war ended, I had never heard about  
> such
> an unlikely scenario. After nearly 5 years of brutal fighting, why  
> would
> the allies allow the Nazis to retain such power?

in other words, you were surprised by the film's suggestion that  
succession in the handling of the same type of power involves in one  
way or another a degree of cooperation between successor and  
predecessor?

I thought this was one of the film's best moments.

Sorry this quick reflection is my first post after reading the list  
for quite a while now, but I couldn't resist it - especially not  
since the answer you were looking for is already in your comment.

Giorgos




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