The Living Dead

Documentary

1995

1 Season

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May 30, 1995 - June 13, 1995Season 1 of The Living Dead has 3 episodes.

Season 1 Episodes

S1 E1: On the Desperate Edge of Now

May 30, 19951h

This episode examined how the various national memories of the Second World War were effectively rewritten and manipulated in the Cold War period. For Germany, this began at the Nuremberg Trials, where attempts were made to prevent the Nazis in the dock—principally Hermann Göring—from offering any rational argument for what they had done. Subsequently, however, bringing lower-ranking Nazis to justice was effectively forgotten about in the interests of maintaining West Germany as an ally in the Cold War. For the Allied countries, faced with a new enemy in the Soviet Union, there was a need to portray WW2 as a crusade of pure good against pure evil, even if this meant denying the memories of the Allied soldiers who had actually done the fighting, and knew it to have been far more complex. A number of American veterans told how years later they found themselves plagued with the previously-suppressed memories of the brutal things they had seen and done. The title comes from a veteran's description of what the uncertainty of survival in combat is like.

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This series investigated the way that history and memory have been used by politicians and others.

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IMDB: 7.9TMDB: 6.9

Original Language

English

Creator

Adam Curtis

Release Date

March 15, 1995

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