The Last Days of the Big Lie (2009) Reviews

• The Last Days Of The Big Lie

  a_baron2014-11-05

  This documentary - a solo effort by a young American Revisionist named Eric Hunt - uses extensive footage from Steven Spielberg's acclaimed yet seriously flawed "The Last Days". The viewer may not care for the narrator's polemical and at times acerbic style, but once that obstacle is overcome there are few serious criticisms to be made of it. It is still considered almost sacrilegious to challenge the veracity of so-called Holocaust survivors, but the reality is - as Hunt points out here - that the testimonies that are credible do not support the Holocaust narrative, while those that do are not credible. The simple fact is that many of these people are shameless liars; the story told by Irene Zisblatt beggars belief, and in fact she has been caught on tape making disparate claims prior to her appearance in the Spielberg film. Hunt produces documentation on Paul Parks, a supposed liberator of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, except that he was no such thing as the "New York Post" pointed out in 1999. Alas, he was not the only one; Leon Bass claimed to have liberated another camp, when he too was nowhere near it at the material time. Hunt covers too the notorious hoax that helped start the first Gulf War - Operation Desert Shield - the one about wicked Iraqi soldiers murdering premature babies in Kuwait. One of the people involved in the perpetration of this hoax was the late Tom Lantos, who made the transition from Holocaust survivor to United States Congressman. Two criticisms may be made of Hunt, one is his attack on Spielberg, and the other is his acceptance of the conspiracy narrative. It is easy to see why he adheres to both; when everybody is lying in unison, what else could it be but a conspiracy? The reality though is that Spielberg is as much a victim as the saps who swallow this garbage, and this is not conspiracy but hysteria on a previously unforeseen scale. Another reality is that the Holocaust as presented in popular culture is entirely different from the one documented in academic books, be they of either the Revisionist or the Exterminationist persuasion. Those who denounce Eric Hunt and people like him should stop and ask themselves where the blame for his bile really lies.

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• Opens your eyes to all of the lies

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  This documentary exposes Stephen Speilburg's lies in "the last days". For those adventurous enough to go against grain and THINK for themselves that maybe history isn't always truthful. This video doesn't even get into things like Auchwitz revising their original death toll from 4 million to under 1 million. Or dachau revising its claimed 2 million total dead to 76,000. When one realizes these extreme over exaggerations one questions what really happened and who were the driving force behind ww2. It also doesn't even touch on videos like "6 million 1915-1938". Or the fact that's its literally ILLEGAL IN OVER 15 COUNTRIES TO EVEN QUESTION THE HOLOCAUST.

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• Lies for lies, and who gets the truth?

  Rodrigo_Amaro2014-10-21

  If only the person behind the movie wasn't so critical...I mean, he'd be more interesting to follow than many filmmakers out there, who provides gripping stories loaded with controversial information, and behind all that makes an extensive and careful research to prove his facts. If only...But behind this strange piece, is someone who has all the good winds on his side but decides to set sail against the current and that can only cause a shipwreck. Eric Hunt's idea is a matter for debate, and a quite valid one, had he stayed objective to one point and one point only: to debunk all the misleading and false information presented in the documentary "The Last Days" (1998). No, along the way he has to sink so low to the point of using of irony, an almost hidden racism and antisemitism during his fact check, and worst of all, the path less traveled by, he denies the Holocaust - and that alone takes away all the credit he was getting by pinpointing with precision the "lies" behind the Oscar winning documentary. In the end, we get another rant by a mad YouTubber. Bear in mind I watched this without knowing who was behind the movie (you can imagine the shock afterwards) and without seeing the other documentary (which amazes me is the fact that, forget about the lies, but more important, the fact that "The Last Days" didn't get any award besides the Oscar, so it must have won due to sympathy to the cause because "Regret to Inform" would be considered the real favorite to win that year with his stream of other awards won). In any case, it feels like watching two movies at the same time - no, three because Hunt insists on uncovering more falsehood in another documentary, "Liberators: Fighting in Two Fronts of WWII" (1992), proved to be complete false and withdrawn from view. Now the movie: the man has talent to show and to prove, knows how to edit and how to expose the horrid, bizarre and unsubstantial stories presented by Holocaust survivors, Black WWII veterans and others, who gave their testimonies in "The Last Days" and also at the Shoah Foundation, created by Spielberg as a Holocaust memorial filled with interviews from Jewish survivors and others who lived that period. What Hunt gets right: in showing that some of the people interviewed for the Shoah project talk about things that are hard to prove, or are sheer lies, and Hunt's examination is very strong. Survivor Irene Zisblatt's story is a clear example. The Auschwitz tattoo perfectly removed, the saved diamonds, the meeting with Mengele, it's just too much to handle. There's more, but if only the director would stick to saying "some of the interviewed are lying" and that's why that documentary is a shameful scheme instead of later on focusing on "the myths of the Holocaust" or "Blacks soldiers never got near to concentration camps to save the Jewish". Attacking Spielberg and the film he produced is one thing; but counter-proof and deny a major fact of History is another serious thing and it's just idiotic. The ship reaches the bottom of the ocean when the director uses of Hitler's words in Mein Kampf to present the true nature of the Jewish people. That alone just sets the basic of what's the real intentions of this film's creator and it's a lot more than to trash an award winning film. Hunt knows how to put the pieces together, manages to make a balanced gathering of information that makes you think - the apparently random sequence involving the U.S. hearings on the Kuwait situation that led to the Gulf War is very interesting - but it all evaporates when his remarks gets ironic, darkly playful and when his speech is deeply analyzed. If the idea is to make me wary of "The Last Days" then mission accomplished. There's plenty of absurd in there, and I think that the Shoah Foundation at the time should have made a better research on the people they found, some of those folks probably haven't reached any other notoriety in their lives that they had to feel a little important by saying they testified unspeakable and unconceivable horrors (lampshades made of human skin?) when in fact they did not. Besides that, "The Last Days of the Big Lie" is purely outrageous and not much of good cinema. And like the other film, it's packed with lies. 4/10

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