this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
1450 points (97.8% liked)

HistoryPorn

6456 readers
147 users here now

If you would like to become a mod in this community, kindly PM the mod.

HistoryPorn is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

Rules

  1. Be respectful and inclusive.
  2. No harassment, hate speech, or trolling.
  3. Foster a continuous learning environment.
  4. No genocide or atrocity denialism.

Pictures of old artifacts and museum pieces should go to History Artifacts

Illustrations and paintings should go to History Drawings

Related Communities:

Military Porn

Forgotten Weapons

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

She's really one of the coolest women in history, isn't she?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

The face that shot a hundred Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

[–] phoenixz 4 points 6 days ago

Please don't. I know Hollywood and it will become.somr over dramatized turd piece that has little to do with what actually happened

[–] dullbananas 1 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 195 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

16-year-old seduces adult nazi to shoot him in the woods during military occupation is slightly less family friendly than Spiderman, at least from what I remember about Spiderman

[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At least, it would have been a nice side plot in "Inglorious Basterds".

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago

Oooh, a reference to her, even in passing, would've been neat.

"The Nazi bastards are on high alert. Soldiers keep going into the woods to bang some broad and end up banged themselves. Stupid fuckers keep going out there. I guess their dicks override orders"

[–] HikingVet 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would argue that it is very family friendly if you aren't a Nazi.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

They'd much rather you follow the legendary tales of Batman whose complex moral dilemma hinges upon not directly getting blood on his own hands even if it means keeping mass murderers alive to continue to terrorize the population.

Batman as a superhero is basically a libertarian wet dream: a defense contractor billionaire who may be complicit in all forms of mass violence but maintains the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability personally.

What's hilarious is even in most of the fiction the libertarian wet dream of Gotham is a dystopian shit hole.

load more comments (15 replies)
[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago

Because she's a revolutionary, and Batman is a billionaire defending the status quo. You can't have people being inspired into revolution.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A few days ago Margot Friedländer died at 103. Her entire closer family died in the holocaust after the USA, China and Brasil denied then immigration visa. She, as a teenager, was able to hide for quite a while but was finally ratted out by a jewish Gestapo spy and deported to a concentration camp. She met her future husband in the KZ and immigranted to New York later on, living a regular life until her husband died in 1997. She then started to write and moved back to Germany in 2010 (as a 89 year old!) and visites countless schools to talk about her experiences with the students and received countless medals, prices and acclaim. She was pictured on the German Vogue magazine in 2024 and later on continued her speeches until two days before her dead - her last speech was at the celebrations for the end of the WW2 in Germany.

We need more motion pictures about people like her. Not about another billionaire superhero who is unable to work in a team to save the world.

Because she was real. And much more powerful. I had the honour to attend a event she spoke.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] ILikeBoobies 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Hard to draw out repeatedly flirting with nazis and killing them

The movie would suck as they try to tie in a love interest and plot

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

… fuck me they’d humanize one of the Nazis

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

.... you do realize Nazis were humans, right?

This is literally one of the most important lessons from Nazism. That anyone, any normal human, loving father, mother, son, can become a monster if the circumstances are right.

God, no wonder fascism is on the rise again if the lessons of it were forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe the the wrong word. Maybe they should have said they would make one sympathetic?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I'm not sure. That could actually be a nice Idea.

Make the audience sympathise with the Nazi, maybe even identify with him. Then show his gruesome actions. All while having him remain being a wonderful father/brother/whatever.

This stark contrast, this shock might help them realize that everyone, even them, are prone to falling for fascism and cause them to think about their relationship with this most gruesome of ideologies. It might show them that Nazism doesn't come from the outside and occupies the country but that instead it comes from the inside, form ourselves, our neighbours and our family members, whom we never would think it possible of.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Or, because the US has shit media literacy, they come away thinking "see? Nazis weren't monsters after all" and go to their next rally.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Because the superhero movies are thinly veiled propaganda for billionaire exceptionalism. Empowering the average person is disruptive to your peasant caste you're not allowed to talk about openly. It is such an engrained cultural taboo you can't even register what I am saying as real, despite it being so obvious that there are classes of people completely disassociated with life as you know and live it. The only exceptional people are the exceptionally greedy and exceptionally unethical. Ms. Oversteegen is a hero like Luigi, someone that stands above our station in life. Such stories are not told or popularized much at all.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Two chance events prevented Gibson from succeeding: First, Mussolini happened to turn his head to look at a group of nearby students who were singing a song in his honor. This caused the bullet to graze the bridge of his nose rather than hit him square in the face. Second, though Gibson fired another bullet, it lodged in her pistol. By that point, she had already been dragged to the ground by a mob.

History's really rhyming here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

-Benito Mussolini, 1932

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want Quintin Tarantino to work with the people who made the 2011 Hanna movie.

Instead of Christoph Waltz finding and killing Jews, it’s a demon child finding and killing Nazis.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›