In a recent video, The News Minute’s Pooja Prasanna made an interesting comparison between films like The Kashmir Files, The Kerala Story, The Sabarmati Report, Veer Savarkar, Razakars, etc, to Adolf Hitler’s notorious propaganda film Triumph of the Will and other Nazi propaganda films However, in their eagerness to draw parallels between these two, they failed to mention a critical point that undermines their entire argument.
Triumph of the Will, widely recognized as one of the most influential propaganda films in history, was directed by Leni Riefenstahl, a woman who later became a symbol of artistic brilliance. What Pooja Prasanna and the team at The News Minute conveniently left out is the fact that Riefenstahl, a woman celebrated by many liberals, worked for Nazi propaganda and later even collaborated with The Sunday Times of London, a prestigious liberal newspaper.
In 1972, The New York Times had published an article stating that Riefenstahl will be on assignment for The Sunday Times of London, with which she had earlier freelanced.
The glaring hypocrisy is that, in their condemnation of the political narrative pushed by The Kashmir Files, and other films, TNM ignores the inconvenient truth about Riefenstahl’s post-war collaborations with mainstream left-liberal outlets. This raises a crucial question: why were liberal heroes, such as Riefenstahl, even in the service of Hitler’s regime, using cinema to push the Nazi agenda? It seems odd that a director who glorified one of the most genocidal regimes in modern history would be lauded as a hero by liberals in later years.
Big history fail by liberals at News Minute
They try to compare Kashmir Files to Hitler's propaganda movie "Triumph of the Will"
But they don't say that the director of Hitler's propaganda movie was Leni Riefenstahl, a liberal hero who later worked for The Times of London! pic.twitter.com/v54dwor3B1
— Abhishek (@AbhishBanerj) January 6, 2025
By failing to acknowledge this historical contradiction, The News Minute inadvertently exposes its nefarious ways of distorting history to suit a its leftist Dravidianist political narrative. When it comes to condemning political films and their potential for influencing public opinion, they seem happy to forget the left-liberal establishment’s own uncomfortable history with figures who worked for the Nazi regime.
This oversight by News Minute is more than a slip-up; it’s an act of historical whitewashing. While it’s easy to point fingers at contemporary films like The Kashmir Files, it’s crucial to reflect on the uncomfortable alliances that were formed by so-called liberal heroes who worked to advance Nazi propaganda.
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