The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945

1992

Action / Documentary

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IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 150 150

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Plot summary

Directed by Hava Kohav Beller, this stirring documentary chronicles the anti-Nazi resistance movement within Hitler's Germany and the countless unsuccessful attempts to remove the führer from power.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

This is quite a fascinating retrospective on some

This is quite a fascinating retrospective on some of the citizens of Germany who, throughout the 1930s and the Second World War, worked to help the Jews to escape and latterly to remove Adolf Hitler from the leadership of the Nazi movement. Using contemporaneous interviews from many of those related to these people, as well as an impressive selection of archive this doesn't just offer us a chronology of who did what, when and where as the German state fell almost effortlessly under the control of the fascists, but it focusses more on the activities of many people who were determined to do what they could to thwart or at least mitigate this regime. Some of the scheming and plotting will doubtless be more familiar, like the Von Stauffenberg plan made more famous later by Tom Cruise in 'Valkyrie' (2008), but it also shines quite a powerful light on the initial reservations of the German military that Hitler inherited as well as of many amidst the provincial governments around the country who sensed the ominousness of his rule. It raises questions about the approach taken by other European powers to the militarisation and industrialisation of Germany, and of just how by the commencement of hostilities against Poland it was clear that this was a man not to be trusted at home or abroad. To that end, even some of his most senior advisers - such as Admiral Canaris who ran the Abwehr, Adam von Trott and Axel von dem Busssche all conspired at considerable peril to the lives of themselves and their families to decapitate this increasingly heinous administration. It also dips it's toe into a world where officers of significance were in constant denial of the abuses being carried out in the name of the 'Herrenfolk' and indeed as many ended up facing summary justice, it's interesting that so many of the hangings and even the odd beheading, were carried out in the name of the people and their beloved Führer. One other suggestion it makes, which may well be as true now as it was then and for aeons before, is the human being's need for hierarchical leadership. Was this nascent nation really ready for democracy after decades of Imperial leadership and centuries before of feudal ones? Paraphrasing one contributor, how do you get shot of a government you don't like when every day it seems to be delivering success, improvement and prosperity to great swathes of a politically apathetic population who are all too eager to wave a flag and jeer a foe. The film researching here is comprehensive and I had never seen much of the trial footage as the authorities cracked down on those who dissented even theoretically, let alone physically. This is a very Euro-centric appreciation of some of the causes of the rise of these governments, and by staying focussed on the aspirations of the recently defeated German state balanced by the obvious reluctance of the French and the British to repeat their own tragically traumatic experiences from barely one generation earlier, this commentary goes some way to explaining, without hyperbole nor propaganda, that not every German was a Nazi and that many courageous people died trying to do the right thing in the face of overwhelming odds.
Reviewed by Audobonpark 10 / 10

A fresh moral perspective on Nazism's trajectory.

This documentary is surprisingly suspenseful and gripping since the outcome is known in advance--the loose knit group of civil servants and military failed to Assassinate Hitler. And yet the way that this movie unspools the various strands of the plot, especially the details about how secretive all communication had to be, were fascinating. As was the sense of it all that was, or that was attempted to be made, by the few surviving plotters, their friends, and wives. Terrific use of archival footage--the decadent Wiemar era, scenes of war and battle, the post-war devastation--that featured many images previously unfamiliar to me. The movie strung them together in montages that were memorable and stirring and in some way uplifting. The same can be said for this fascinating movie. A find.
Reviewed by robert-temple-1 10 / 10

Everyone Should See This

This is one of the most fascinating documentaries I have ever seen, because it reveals so much that we did not know about one of the most traumatic episodes in the history of our civilisation. It is remarkable how many resisters to Hitler there really were within Germany itself. The fantastic, mind-boggling stupidity of Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, and Anthony Eden are portrayed very vividly here, all of whom actually considered these resisters to be 'traitors' to their country refused to deal with them, and thus prolonged the War for another two years! Hava Beller managed to get extended and moving interviews with just about everybody who was left alive in 1991 who could talk about this subject. The most moving of all the interviews is with former Lieutenant Bossche, who failed to kill Hitler in one of the aborted bomb plots and was never discovered, hence never tried and executed. He says that his great guilt is that he is still alive. His description of being an eye-witness to the brutal murders of 1800 naked Jews and being prohibited by his Colonel from stopping the SS from carrying out this atrocity is mind-numbing in its horror. The most impressive interviewee in the film is probably Freya von Moltke, the widow of Helmuth James von Moltke, the leader of the Kreisau Kreis of anti-Hitler conspirators. I am immensely proud of being distantly related to Helmuth James, and how I wish I had met this amazing woman who is every bit as impressive as her husband must have been (he was executed January 23, 1945, and many of the survivors said he was the most outstanding of all of them). The film is nearly two hours long, but one is riveted for all of that time, hardly daring to breathe, at all the revelations and human stories, and the momentousness of the whole thing. What a wonderful documentary record this is, and it ought to be shown in all schools. The film contains a vast amount of archive footage, and it is the most incredible 'inside story' history lesson. Although the film was nominated for an Oscar when it was released, it is surprising to me how little known it seems to be today. The power of the film is increased by its total lack of didactic character, and the director is not trying too hard to make us hold any particular opinions, but wants us just to see, to listen, and above all, to think.
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