Hitler Was a Scapegoat

[Maritz]

Film director Oliver Stone came under criticism last night for branding Hitler a 'scapegoat' and praising Stalin. He made the comments about the dictators while promoting his new television documentary series on 20th century America. The controversial series entitled Oliver Stone's Secret History of America is an attempt to redress what he believes is a biased version of history taught in American schools.

One show that focuses entirely on a more positive side of Hitler - whose Nazi regime was responsible for the extermination of 6million Jews - is purported to be the most shocking episode.

Speaking about the 10-hour series, to be shown on US television, at a critics' screening in California, Stone said : 'We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good'. [Hitler] is the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect. People in America don't know the connection between World War I and World War II. Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply.'

'Stalin has a complete other story. Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any person'. He added : 'I've been able to walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes, to understand their point of view. You cannot approach history unless you have empathy for the person you may hate'. Protesters in the US have already left negative comments on online forums against his series.

Orphia Nay wrote while the interview was being broadcast : 'Ohhhhhh, this is not going to end well'. Another added : 'Again, another 'blame America first' person. If he/they hate it, just leave it. We'll all have a party and help you pack. You won't even have a full body scan'.

Apart from placing Stalin 'in context', the three-times Academy Award winner for best director has also focused on Chinese Communist dictator Chairman Mao, 1950s anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy and President Truman's dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945.

It is not the first time that Stone, 63, has courted controversy through his work. His 1990 film JFK, implied that President Lydon Johnson played a part in President Kennedy's assassination along with the CIA, Army, the Mafia and Cuban exiles.
After writing the screenplay for Midnight Express, the author of the autobiographical novel Billy Hayes attacked the film saying it portrayed Turks in a negative light and he had made many Turkish friends while he was in prison in Istanbul. A series of gruesome murders were put down to his 1994 Natural Born Killers in which a young couple carry out a gruesome killing spree. Even before the release of W, about the presidency of George W Bush, many right-wing bloggers in the US had condemned his film.

Source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242195/Oliver-Stone-causes-outrage-suggests-Hitler-scapegoat-says-understands-Stalins-point-view.html

[Rev.Cambeul]

If it's that hated by the Jewish community, then it's at least worth viewing once.

@Cailen.

[Axelsson]

If it really was hated by the jews, it wouldn't air, period. There is always some kind of jewish propoganda when they show it on public television.