![]() ![]() Kenneth Brannagh does a wonderful job on the commentary and interviewing, he has that rare gift of minimizing his own persona thus allowing the subjects to speak for themselves. One of the atrocities was Anne Frank, who put a face to the death camps by the miracle of her diary's survival. At the beginning of the documentary there is a statement about the leader Adolf Hitler in that the one profound fact about Hitler that is never mentioned was that he was elected democratically and all of the atrocities committed were done as the result of a compliant poodle-press and fear-mongering propaganda played over and over again for a docile population. ![]() The 'it' of course is can a so-called civilized society turn on its own or on an innocent country/race/continent and murder citizens in cold blood on the flimsiest of excuses? I leave that question out there. And throughout the ensuing years, yes, I fear 'it' continues to happen around us and of course 'it' was happening long before Anne. My fascination has also been born of fear, as in, could this happen again. ![]() Through the years I've been very much interested in the life of this teenager who left such a profound, indelible mark on the world. ![]()
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