Can we really imagine Germany in 1945 outside of the images immortalized by Roberto Rossellini in
Germany, Year Zero
, the last part of his “war series” after
Rome, open city
and the unforgettable
Païsa
?
It is a country in ruins, whose main cities are completely razed, a nation given over to hunger, cold, pillaging, exile (14 million Germans expelled from the eastern territories by the will of Stalin).
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Mothers are forced to encourage their children to steal, gangs of abandoned young people are among the most predatory, the black market dominates and becomes a “school of citizenship”
,
women are molested and raped (the fear of the Russians is permanent , while the latter have the greatest respect for German culture, unlike the American troops who are largely insensitive to Bach, Goethe or Hölderlin).
In short, as the chronicles of the time say, it is
“the time of the wolves”
, a world that only Hobbes could have imagined when he…
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