In 1975, the West German filmmaker, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg directed an astounding documentary called The Confessions of Winifred Wagner (Winifred Wagner Und Die Geschichte Des Hauses Wahnfried Von 1914-1975). Throughout the film, Winifred, the geriatric daughter-in-law of the famed composer Richard Wagner, talks about her cultural and political influence during the Third Reich. Yet in contradiction to the films’s title, Winifred confesses nothing. The contradictions within her discourse do, however, reveal the extent of her delusions and political commitment as an unrepentant fascist. She paradoxically describes herself as a completely apolitical being, adamant that her classification as a grade three Nazi at the end of the war was a grave injustice. Still Winifred cannot contain her amusement when she recalls that after the collapse of the Third Reich, she was the only person left in Germany who would admit that she was a Nazi. Some of Winifred’s most disquieting comments are within the film’s epilogue. To those critics who self-righteously and indignantly condemn her generation, Winifred retorts: “there is no personal merit in not being born in a barbaric age where you’re tested to the limit.” The dowager’s comments are indeed sobering, particularly when one acknowledges that political repression, terror and wholesale slaughter haven’t abated with the collapse of Germany’s fascist dictatorship. However repugnant that regime was, it’s not as if Germans have exclusive rights over historical atrocities. As the West German social psychologists, A. and M. Mitscherlich, have reasoned: “The erstwhile military and moral victors over the Third Reich have since shown, in `limited’ wars of their own such as those in Algeria or Vietnam, that they too are capable of very grave acts of inhumanity.” Accordingly, suspicions about the barbarism of our own age and own history may be more justified than even Winifred Wagner has suggested. It is, after all, “only a redeemed mankind (which) receives the fullness of its past – which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments.”
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Language(s):German – English (only voice over)
Subtitles:English
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