Hitler Youth Quex Movie Analysis

Hitler Youth Quex, a seminal Nazi propaganda film on the Hitler youth organization, uses depictions of the use as victims in order to justify their struggles and establish their Superior superiority over their comment and communist antagonizers. This victimization can be seen throughout several different scenes in the film, with The Hitler youth often shown as a very cohesive structured and moral group; they are often showed in the best of light wherever possible, and often in ways that depict them as doing no wrong. They are never shown as antagonizers in any of their conflicts. They are only shown as victims to various attacks, whether physical or ideologically. They take on a stance, an identity, of victimhood. Victims specifically of the films main “them”, the “other”, the enemy, the communist party. Throughout the film, The Communists are shown as a rowdy over the top group who will use violent means in order to accomplish their ends, in contrast to the peaceful victims of their attacks, the Hitler youth.

In his book how fashionism works, in chapter 7 Victimhood, Stanley defines victimhood as placing oneself as being the victim in any situation even when one is in a majority faction in power and is not the victim. In fascist context this victimhood is used in order to justify various injustices against minorities and to further nationalist ideals. Stanley speaks of how a fascist leader or fascist machines in general might use a sense of collective victimhood in order to create a sense of group identity be it based on political ideologies race ethnicity or religion, and further uses this group collective in order to strengthen a US versus them dichotomy. The group that is defined is always contrasted and perceived against another ate them. The defined group is expected to guard against and sometimes quote do battle with "in Hitler youth quacks this can be seen throughout the film through the ways that the Hitler youth organization is portrayed in comparison to their Communist party counterparts. Specifically the Nazi party and the Hitler youth organization in specificity is portrayed as being an innocent fashion free of any moral sin and free of any guilt in any altercations that happen between the two groups. During one scene in the middle of the film we're in the Communists are moving against the Nazi Hitler youth party headquarters, we are shown the interior of the Hitler youth organization filmed in very bright lighting with smiling faces patriotic singing in general innocence the Hitler youth is framed as a patriotic moral and outstanding group innocent and free of any wrongdoing merely looking to live their lives and follow their party. In contrast the Communists as they move on towards the headquarters are shown in Shadow openly mocking the Nazis and their patriotism and ultimately do end up attacking the Hitler use headquarters showing very violent behavior. In general this frames the Hitler youth as being innocent victims to the Savage Communist party and their members. The Hitler youth is not shown at any point in the film to do anything that might deserve the attacks against them. Whereas the Communists are always shown in a negative light so that the viewer sides with the victim quote unquote of the Hitler youth. 

Stanley later describes victimhood as an overwhelming emotion that conceals can contradiction between equality driven and domination driven nationalist movements by this he is speaking of instances in which a nationalist party might portray themselves as the victims in order to pursue domination over another group in Hitler quest this is in reference to the Communist party. From a meta perspective the Nazi party was already in power at the time of the filming of Hitler you've quits. It frames a genuine past event as being true oppression in order to advance the nationalist goals of the Nazi party they are using a past event in order to further their goals and justify their fight against the Communist party. One scene where this can be seen quite heavily is through the death of an innocent specifically at the end of the film hiney is killed by the Communist party after he went about hanging up Nazi party posters in communist own sections of the city. Hiney is portrayed as a patriotic child who died for a moral cause, the ultimate cause to the Nazi regime, that of helping the party. In contrast the Communists here are framed as the ultimate evil taking the life of an innocent to further their own agenda and oppress the Nazis.