millennial empire to a moral and existential vacuum

Yes, I noticed that liberals, socialists, Jews and Bolsheviks were frustrated with the project of creating a great empire called Germany, The National Socialists should not leave the scene without wanting a Wagnerian case. Thanks to some of their ministers and generals disobeying their orders, Paris and Berlin were spared the total destruction that took place in Warsaw and were massacred by the Wehrmacht in retreat.

Berlin survived Hitler’s death but converted to it a village of escombros inhabited by the hungry and desperate. Some of its inhabitants wandered into its streets and could not find their way around the ruins. Civilians train human cadets to remove helmets or place cubes of water in circulation.

On other occasions, they simply wait for hours in large jars to receive some food or medicine. Abandoned and slightly confused, many were restricted to wandering among the bomb-destroyed buildings or when he feels on some stone with lost sight.

Rossellini touched the exteriors of the house Germany, last year in post-war Berlin and film studio interiors in Rome. I was surprised that the Berliners didn’t want to be fixed by their roadmen, so what? their minds float in confusionfrustration and helplessness.

The Italian director chose a one-year-old boy who worked as an acrobat in the circus for the role of Edmund, the protagonist of his film. There were elections for that the boy looked like his Romano, recently defective.

Chaos and misery coexisted in Berlin in 1947 programs designed to alleviate human evil. Edmund had his pirouettes among the elephants. The motivation was to make money, and viewers reached into their bags to reward their contortions, which allowed them to escape the daily horrors of the post-war era for a minute.

The story of Germany, last year tells the tragic story of Edmund, a small boy who walks the streets of Berlin’s Arrasado, selling his family’s valuables to help his sick father and his mother, a young girl with an early sexuality. I risk prostitution to get a comida.

Edmund fraternizes with a group of juvenile delinquents on the black market and returns to his old professor, Mr. Enning, a pedophile who fought for the Nazi party and that requires your defenses to handle and manipulate it.

After several conversations with Enning, Edmund confesses to her that his father is very ill and cannot leave his bed. The professor attacks them with Hitler’s speechaccording to the laws of stable nature, that only the strongest must survive and that the weak are a burden.

Edmund understands that his professor desires to marry his father and decides to marry himthinking that this is the most correct. To do so, he tells Enning to contact him, but is met with an unexpected response. A fake horrified teacher expels him from his house.

Aturdido, Edmund wanders among the ruins of Berlin. As you cross the front of the church, look for the darkened head. He later enters a still-standing building and pretends to shoot himself in the head with a pedrus, leaving himself empty. Suicide is a metaphor for the collective suicide committed by German society behind Hitler’s military and genocidal plans.

Photos of meat and grain Germany, last year gives the film a documentary feel. Neorealism is not meant to please the viewer, but rather to satisfy his conscience. The goal is not beauty, but truth. Rossellini managed to create a depressing atmospheresimilar to de Plaguea novel by Albert Camus.

Nazism is not a simple political phenomenon, but collective pathology. It arises when human beings’ most atavistic instincts impose themselves on reason, always for food. In moments of panic and confusion, society accepts the sacrifice of freedom in exchange for safety. The precariousness and infantile desamparo of citizens, arrojándolos in the hands of unscrupulous demagogues.

In wars, children usually suffer more than adults, who may be more vulnerable and need the means to interpret characters. If it is said that this degree of resistance is greater on a large surface, but my experience does not confirm what has been said. My mother lived for several years when the civil war started in Spain and she never got over the experience of the hambre and the bombers. Live in a state of hypervigilance for the rest of your life, always afraid of the possibility of imminent disaster. Innocence is the first casualty of war, and innocence is truth, it can embody that purity that has never been contaminated by malice, lies, or code.

The will to power is the root cause of evil, and only when it is tempered with humility, compassion and frugality.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Europe seemed to have been destroyed by warHowever, in the twentieth century it reappeared in ancient Yugoslavia, and four years ago there was no reason to cause death and destruction in Ukraine.

The wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo claimed up to 150,000 lives. The cover-up and propaganda that led to the Ukraine war, branded by Putin as a “special military operation” in an exercise in superlative cynicism, It did not stop analysts from reaching the figure of two thousand deadof which the mayor would answer to the fighters of both bands. According to the United Nations, 18,000 civilians lost their lives.

In turn, the majority of the 70,000 casualties in the Gaza invasion are women and children. No further discussion of the proceeds of war hereHamas is a militia with 20,000 poorly armed soldiers and the Israel Defense Forces have mobilized 500,000 wounded soldiers with the most advanced and deadly weapons.

Now the world contains breathing with Iran war. Will we learn nothing? It may be that the human species has progressed materially, but not in the moral realm, as Rousseau famously advised Discourse on science and art? I believe only one can observe Edmund’s desperate gestures in post-war Berlin to come to a conclusion we continue tired of primary impulsesunable to understand that violence always backfires on its perpetrators.

Thanks to nuclear weapons, humanity has the means to definitively destroy life on Earth. There are other alternatives, but I like the echo. San Francisco de Asís, who asked God to be an instrument of peace, gave us a valuable existential lesson that we must affirm: “I want little, and the little I desire, I desire little”. The will to power is the ultimate cause of evil and can only be tamed by humility, compassion, and frugality, three virtues that Nazi Germany misappropriated and weakened.

I imagine that at this moment children are walking through the ruins of Gaza and southern Lebanon with souls as broken as Edmund’s. Above all, it is everyone’s sin or, if you prefer, the greatest failure of civilization, which – as Martin Luther King pointed out – can fly but cannot live in peace.