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Wir Kellerkinder
1960 · Film · 86 min
Directed by Wolfgang Bellenbaum
During the Third Reich, Macke played the drums for the Hitler Youth, but also had a "dangerous" penchant for jazz. After the war, he came under ideological fire in the Soviet zone. Finally in West Germany, he ends up in an institution.
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> As a 'West German' I can assure you that this was not the case. Germans after WWII were fascist like before.
That is what I was trying to say; I'm sorry if I did not manage to express that properly by crossing the line to cynicism. I wholeheartedly agree with your summary of post-WW2 Germany - parts of my family later claimed they never liked Hitler but that they had been fighting in WW2 for Kaiser Wilhelm!
A good watch for people interested in post-WW2 Germany's way of coping with recent history is "We Cellar Children"[1] (boy hides communist during WW2 in basement, then his fascist father just after WW2 and then he is finally arrested later on for painting a swastika on a wall after a journalist asked him to do so for a report...)
I don't agree with your implication that "fascist thinking" is a thing of the past in Germany - but that's yet another topic.
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054479/